Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Washington, DC?

Which Washington practices are private equity backed, corporate-owned or owned by their own clinicians, with the group and a source for each label.

• 453 dental practices: 11 PE-backed or lender-controlled (2%), 1 in clinician-owned groups and 436 with no known PE ties.
• 156 eye care practices: 15 PE-backed (10%), 5 corporate-owned and 118 with no known PE ties.
• 14 locations of the vet chains we track: 12 PE-backed and 2 corporate-owned.
• 4 locations of the dermatology chains we track: 4 PE-backed.
• 2 locations of the GI chains we track: 2 corporate-owned.

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Washington dentists

PE-backed 8 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 3 Group practice 1 Not confirmed 5 No known PE ties 436

Groups here: SALT Dental Partners (4) · Guardian Dentistry Partners (3) · D4C Dental Brands (2) · Benevis (2) · Heartland Dental (1) · The Aspen Group (TAG) (1) · Star Dental Partners (1) · Affordable Care (ACI) (1) · Southern Orthodontic Partners (1) · MINT Dentistry (1)

Washington eye doctors

PE-backed 15 Not PE, corporate-owned 5 Part of a health system 10 Not confirmed 8 No known PE ties 118

Groups here: MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services) (15) · GW Medical Faculty Associates (10) · Visionworks (4) · Vision Innovation Partners (VIP) (3) · AEG Vision (formerly Acuity Eyecare Group) (2) · National Vision Holdings (1) · NVISION Eye Centers (1) · LensCrafters (1) · PRISM Vision Group (1)

Washington vets

PE-backed 12 Not PE, corporate-owned 2

Groups here: Bond Vet (3) · Small Door Veterinary (3) · Encore Vet Group (2) · Mission Pet Health (2) · GoodVets (2) · Banfield Pet Hospital (1) · VCA Animal Hospitals (1)

We track the vet chains and groups, not every independent practice, so a practice not listed here hasn’t been checked.

Washington dermatologists

PE-backed 4

Groups here: Integrated Dermatology (3) · PhyNet Dermatology (1)

We track the dermatology chains and groups, not every independent practice, so a practice not listed here hasn’t been checked.

Washington GI doctors

Not PE, corporate-owned 2

Groups here: Capital Digestive Care (2)

We track the GI chains and groups, not every independent practice, so a practice not listed here hasn’t been checked.

Every listed practice in Washington

† From an individual dentist’s or doctor’s NPI record; it may not be an open office.

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“No known PE ties” means we found none, not that we proved there are none. Labels describe ownership, not quality of care. How we label · Report a correction