Dr. Benjamin Lowentritt

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BackTable Urology · Ep. 315 Private Equity's Impact on Urology Practices with Dr. Benjamin Lowentritt · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

And all of my partners have access to me as well.

It's not like I'm living in a bubble somewhere.

So I think that that physician presence is really, really critical and something that, you know, I think has to continue to be advocated for always within our organizations, right?

I think that would be a negative if we started to lose that.

Yeah, no, no.

I think it's a really fair point.

I think it gets to some of the differences in the structure between, I mean, you know, an academic hospital-based practice, you know, and some of our independent practices.

The one thing that I will say about this is that

at least this is my interpretation of some of the things I've seen played out in hospital situations, is that in these organizations that I've been a part of, there's a strict line as to how much the management team can ever get paid, right?

Whereas in, you know, it seems endless in the hospital world of how much administrative bloat there can get, right?

So, you know, I think there is, by the nature of the arrangement, there's a little bit more

requirement for really true alignment.

So I don't think you're wrong, you know, and I think that if you ask some of my partners before we develop the MSO and partner with private equity, just as we were getting bigger, they were probably feeling out of touch, you know, with the everyday strategy and management of the practice, because as you get bigger,

You know, the question is, is are we truly at a day where you can realistically, you know, hang a shingle and be your own boss and drive your own practice?

And I think that that is really, really difficult in urology, given the number of toys that we like and the expense of those toys and the fact that, you know...

traditional urology in the view of most payers in hospitals is like one and a half percent of the hospital revenue slash spend slash however you want to look at it.

So if you look at it from that perspective only, despite the fact that we drive a ton of economics through the broader hospital organization, that's often the perspective that we get, right?

So it's hard to keep our specialty even as the focus of an organization.

And in these types of organization, like that should not be a question.

That's what the organization is there for.

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