AHLA Podcast: Physician Practice Employment and Acquisition: What Is Driving the Changing Landscape?
When it comes to physician practices, the rate of employment, acquisition, and alignment activity among health care corporate entities like payers, payer-backed groups, private equity, and major vertically integrated retailers has outpaced similar activity among hospitals and health systems. Danielle Bangs, Director, Veralon, speaks with Mike Flammini, Chief Development Officer, Privia Health, and Eric Tower, Partner, Blank Rome LLP, about the changing landscape of physician practice employment and acquisition. They discuss what is driving expanded interest among these corporate entities that are employing and aggregating physicians, what is driving expanded interest among physicians in these new arrangements, and how hospitals and health systems are responding.