| ▲ | paimapi 4 hours ago | |
Relatedly - Private equity affiliation among dentists increases: https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2024/august/private-equity-... When Private Equity Firms Acquire Dental Practices, Patients Pay the Price: https://truthout.org/articles/when-private-equity-firms-acqu... Dental offices acquired by private equity firms tended to shift from diagnostic and preventive procedures to generally higher reimbursement restorative, specialty, and surgical procedures: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41367221/ | ||
| ▲ | kldavis4 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
This is the primary issue. My dentist who we'd used for 10 years sold without us knowing. Almost all the staff we'd known left and finally the dentist/former owner. I didn't understand what was going on and why the service had gone to shit. Talked to a dentist friend and he suggested it was a PE takeover. I did some research and confirmed that was what happened. Found another privately owned dentist, but it's clear that some laws need to change to protect patients. | ||