Private Equity-Owned Retinal Practices Perform Fewer Retinal Detachment Procedures

In recent years, many private equity firms have bought up physician practices, and then looked for ways to increase profits. Sometimes they achieve profits by bringing administrative efficiencies to bear upon their practices. Other times, after buying enough practices to gain local market share, they increase prices, with insurers having little choice but to pay the bills.

But in other cases, they direct clinicians to perform relatively lucrative procedures while reducing, or eliminating, the performance of unprofitable ones. Consider emergency surgery for retinal detachment. Read more here