1.  American Oncology buys practices that provide chemotherapy and drug practices, along with radiation-based groups that require more expensive medical equipment.

2.  And with fewer accountants to choose from, many firms have taken to raiding one another for talent, or simply buying smaller practices.

3.  Any professional looking for a business partner or wishing to buy a practice may want to begin by placing an ad in the state professional journal or local newspaper.

4.  After Laventhol died, some Laventhol partners bought local practices through bankruptcy court and re-established them under new names.

5.  Buying a practice from a successful dentist can be prohibitively expensive.

6.  Despite the potential risk of guilt by association, Kawesch decided buying the practice made sense.

7.  The University of Pennsylvania, among others, simply bought private practices and gave the physicians faculty rank!.

8.  There was also trouble for companies that bought the practices of physicians.