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- Big businesses such as hospital systems, insurers, and PE firms are gobbling up medical clinics.
- Some doctors and industry experts fear corporate owners could prioritize profits ahead of patients.
- The federal government is dialing up scrutiny of PE firms and other corporate owners in healthcare.
Independent doctors are almost a thing of the past.