Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Cumming, GA?

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

• 78 dental practices: 10 PE-backed (13%), 2 corporate-owned and 62 with no known PE ties.
• 43 eye care practices: 6 PE-backed (14%), 4 corporate-owned, 2 in clinician-owned groups and 30 with no known PE ties.
• 6 locations of the vet chains we track: 5 PE-backed and 1 corporate-owned.
• 2 locations of the dermatology chains we track: 2 PE-backed.
• 2 locations of the GI chains we track: 2 PE-backed.

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Cumming dentists

PE-backed 10 Not PE, corporate-owned 2 Not confirmed 4 No known PE ties 62

13% of Cumming’s dental practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: about the same as Georgia as a whole (11%) and above the US (7%).

The largest group is Heartland Dental, backed by KKR and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, with 4 of the 78 dental practices here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Family Dentistry on Freedom (Heartland Dental).

Groups here: Heartland Dental (4) · PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (2) · D4C Dental Brands (2) · Sage Dental (2) · The Aspen Group (TAG) (1) · Oak Dental Partners (1) · Beacon Oral Specialists (1) · Deca Dental (1) · Imagen Dental Partners (1) · Smile Doctors (1)

Cumming eye doctors

PE-backed 6 Not PE, corporate-owned 4 Group practice 2 Not confirmed 1 No known PE ties 30

14% of Cumming’s eye care practices are PE-backed or lender-controlled: above Georgia as a whole (10%) and the US (6%).

The largest group is National Vision Holdings, owned by public shareholders (NASDAQ: EYE) rather than a PE firm, with 2 of the 43 eye care practices here.

Groups here: National Vision Holdings (2) · EyeSouth Partners (2) · Covenant Physician Partners (2) · AEG Vision (formerly Acuity Eyecare Group) (1) · InFocus Eyecare (1) · LensCrafters (1) · Target Optical (1) · Thomas Eye Group (1) · Visionworks (1) · Woolfson Eye Institute (1)

Cumming vets

PE-backed 5 Not PE, corporate-owned 1

The largest group is PetVet Care Centers, backed by KKR, with 2 of the 6 chain locations here.

Keeping a local name but affiliated with a PE-backed group: Animal Medical Center of Cumming (PetVet Care Centers); Barkfield Animal Hospital (Innovetive Petcare).

Groups here: PetVet Care Centers (2) · Banfield Pet Hospital (1) · Innovetive Petcare (1) · National Veterinary Associates (NVA) (1) · Destination Pet (1)

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

Cumming dermatologists

PE-backed 2

Groups here: AQUA Dermatology (1) · Anne Arundel Dermatology (1)

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

Cumming GI doctors

PE-backed 2

Groups here: United Digestive (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 Cumming

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

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