EDITORIAL COMMENT

Abstract

The landscape of urologic employment has changed dramatically over the past 10 years. Older models of employment, such as independent practice and academic practice have given way to new models of employment, such as hospital-based employment, multispecialty group practice, and private equity (PE) acquired practices. Nie et al demonstrated that private equity acquisitions have become a dominant form of urology practice consolidation.1 They estimate that 7.2% of private practice urologists were employed by private equity backed firms and 25% of urologists in New Jersy and Maryland are employed by private equity firms.