http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/surge-in-hospital-owned-physician-practices-poised-to-increase-healthcare-c/425881/

• Independent physicians and physician-owned practices could soon become a rare breed, suggests a new analysis by Avalere Health and the Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI) released Wednesday.
• The study found the percentage of physicians employed by hospitals or health systems rose 86% from 2012 to 2015, from 95,000 to more than 140,000.
• As of mid-2015, 38% of all U.S. physicians were employed by hospitals and health systems, findings show.
• Also from 2012 through 2015, hospitals acquired 31,000 physician practices, resulting in one in four medical practices being hospital-owned.