PEDIATRICS Vol. 96 No. 5 November 1995, pp. 971
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DOCTORS FOR SALE

J. F. L. MD

Medpartners Inc, a fast-growing company that manages the practices of doctors' groups in the Southeast and Midwest, said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire Mullikin Medical Enterprises LP, which has a similar business in the West.

The deal, in which Medpartners agreed to pay $360 million in stock for Mullikin, would create, in terms of revenue, the nation's largest physician-management company. Revenue in 1996 is projected to reach about $1 billion. A merged company would also be in a position to build a national network of doctors' group practices.

The Medpartners move is part of a wave of consolidations that is reshaping all quarters of the health industry. Many anxious doctors—fearful of being squeezed by cost-control efforts—have decided to heal themselves by contracting out for management services.