Private Equity

In the most popular Healio Dermatology story last week, Suzanne Bruce, MD, presented findings at the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery annual meeting from her research weighing the positives and negatives of private equity to help her decide how to transition her dermatology practice to allow more time with her family.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — At the OCTANe Medical Technology Innovation Forum, Jim Mazzo, global president of ophthalmic devices at Carl Zeiss Meditec, discusses the impact private equity is having on how equipment and technology are purchased for medical practices.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — On a panel about private equity at the OCTANe Medical Technology Innovation Forum here, two ophthalmologists agreed that the time is now for going the private equity route but only for the right types of private practices.

CHICAGO — In conducting research on private equity to help Suzanne Bruce, MD, decide how to transition her dermatology practice in Houston — to allow more time with her family and relieve the administrative burden of the practice — she discovered an overwhelming amount of negativity and vitriol.

A new health policy statement on equity in cardiologist compensation and opportunity from the American College of Cardiology provides guiding principles for establishing appropriate compensation plans.

As students go back to school and parents resign beach gear to its out-of-season digs at the back of the garage, Healio Dermatology reflects on big news from August on acne treatment, private equity in the marketplace and much more.

In mid-August, Healio Dermatology reported on the sea change in private equity-backed groups acquiring an abundance of dermatology practices from 2012 to 2018, with 36% focused in Florida and Texas.

Private equity-based dermatology practice consolidation increased at a mean rate of 65% each year from 2012 to 2017, according to researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in the current top story from August.