The blob.

If you haven’t heard, private equity is absorbing medical practices left and right. Most plans look something like: buy broad, consolidate, grow fast, and resell. With more consolidation comes more pressure to refer internally to drive up profits regardless of patient needs. All leading to this call for a legal inquisition into just what we should and shouldn’t let slide when it comes to this disturbing trend. | Gondi, JAMA 2019