Hospital-owned physician practices continue to grow as doctors steadily move away from private practice, citing significant financial and regulatory challenges that make it difficult to stay ...

Over the past decade, independent physicians in the U.S. have become increasingly scarce as hospital systems, private equity firms and payers have acquired individual practices — a trend that ...

The percentage of physicians in private practice has continued to decline, according to the American Medical Association's (AMA) biennial Physician Practice Benchmark Survey. In 2024, 42.2% of ...

Being a private practice physician is a good fit for those looking to be their own boss and work with like-minded colleagues, the American Medical Association said in an April 3 blog post. Private ...

As the cost of managing an independent practice increases alongside consolidation throughout healthcare, four physicians joined Becker’s to forecast the outlook for private practice in 2025. Editor’s ...

With the rapid rise in consolidation from hospitals and private equity firms, the old-fashioned private medical practice, run and managed by one or two physicians, is no longer the norm. Only 42% of ...

One would think that a physician who earns his living billing patients would be conversant with the prices of his services. Not this doctor. I am queried periodically by patients asking how much I ...