A sponsor-focused guide to private equity in dentistry, including the DSO platform thesis, buy-and-build economics, underwriting metrics, valuation mechanics, and the deal terms dentists should benchmark when evaluating sponsor offers.
A specialist guide to how dental service organizations evaluate practice acquisitions, including collections quality, hygiene economics, owner dependence, associate coverage, platform fit, integration burden, valuation adjustments, and seller proceeds.
A buyer-underwriting guide to why physician practice management platforms attract strategic and financial buyers, which operating characteristics tend to lift valuation, and how founder-led sellers should think about scalability, consolidation, and rollover economics before going to market.
A transaction-focused guide to medical practice valuation, including normalized EBITDA adjustments, specialty-specific risk, multiple selection, buyer diligence priorities, and a worked bridge from enterprise value to realistic seller proceeds.
A practical, seller-focused guide for physician owners evaluating an exit. This article explains how buyers underwrite a single medical practice, how valuation actually gets defended, what diligence issues can reduce price, and how process design, structure, and transition planning influence both proceeds and certainty.
By George Barsom, JD, CM&AA®, CAIA® • Last updated: June 8, 2026 Updated for physician practice owners evaluating EBITDA multiples, revenue multiples, specialty mix, adjusted EBITDA, payer mix, referral durability, provider dependence, buyer demand, diligence risk, deal structure, and seller proceeds. This guide focuses on how buyers interpret multiples in actual transaction underwriting and why similar practices…
A practical buyer-underwriting guide for physician owners evaluating who acquires medical practices, how buyer types differ, what each buyer underwrites, and how buyer fit affects valuation, deal structure, diligence, rollover, employment terms, cash at close, and certainty of close.
A founder-focused guide to why private equity sponsors consolidate physician practices, how MSO infrastructure and add-on strategy shape valuation, and what physician owners should expect in diligence, rollover negotiations, governance, employment terms, cash at close, and post-close integration.
By George Barsom, JD, CM&AA®, CAIA® • Last updated: June 8, 2026 Updated for physician owners, specialty practice groups, healthcare operators, and referring professionals evaluating specialty physician practice M&A, buyer underwriting, specialty-specific valuation drivers, platform versus add-on positioning, rollover equity, earnouts, working-capital mechanics, and seller proceeds. This article is informational and is not legal, tax, accounting, investment,…