Payments to anesthesiologists increased after hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers contracted with a physician management company (PMC), and were significantly higher if the PMC received private equity (PE) investment, according to a retrospective study.
The study appeared in JAMA Internal Medicine (2022 Feb 18. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.0004).
“There have been significant changes in the ownership and organization of physician practices over the past