Who owns the dentists, eye doctors and vets in Houston, TX?

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

• 2,035 dental practices: 179 PE-backed or lender-controlled (9%), 13 corporate-owned, 28 in clinician-owned groups and 1,797 with no known PE ties.
• 744 eye care practices: 50 PE-backed (7%), 46 corporate-owned, 22 in clinician-owned groups and 609 with no known PE ties.
• 66 locations of the vet chains we track: 37 PE-backed and 25 corporate-owned.
• 6 locations of the dermatology chains we track: 2 PE-backed.
• 7 locations of the GI chains we track: 7 corporate-owned.

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Houston dentists

PE-backed 104 PE-backed, now lender-controlled 75 Not PE, corporate-owned 13 Group practice 28 Not confirmed 18 No known PE ties 1,797

Groups here: Sonrava Health (63) · Smile Brands (18) · Deca Dental (14) · Jefferson Dental & Orthodontics (JDC Healthcare Corp.) (14) · Lovett Dental (13) · MB2 Dental (12) · PDS Health (formerly Pacific Dental Services) (12) · Heartland Dental (9) · Rodeo Dental (8) · Affordable Care (ACI) (6) · Community Dental Partners (6) · The Aspen Group (TAG) (6)

The list below shows the first 600 of 1,797 dentists with no known PE ties.

Houston eye doctors

PE-backed 50 Not PE, corporate-owned 46 Group practice 22 Not confirmed 17 No known PE ties 609

Groups here: MyEyeDr. (Capital Vision Services) (34) · Texas State Optical (TSO) (18) · National Vision Holdings (17) · AEG Vision (formerly Acuity Eyecare Group) (13) · Now Optics (Stanton Optical, My Eyelab) (10) · Visionworks (10) · EyeSouth Partners (7) · LensCrafters (7) · Target Optical (5) · Retina Consultants of America (RCA) (4) · Mann Eye Institute (4) · Retina Consultants of Texas (RCTX) (3)

The list below shows the first 600 of 609 eye doctors with no known PE ties.

Houston vets

PE-backed 37 Not PE, corporate-owned 25 VC-backed, not PE 3 Not confirmed 1

Groups here: Banfield Pet Hospital (12) · National Veterinary Associates (NVA) (12) · VCA Animal Hospitals (5) · Vetco Total Care (Petco) (5) · Mission Pet Health (4) · Thrive Pet Healthcare (4) · VetCor (3) · Petfolk (2) · Community Veterinary Partners (CVP) (2) · Modern Animal (2) · Western Veterinary Partners (2) · Lakefield Veterinary Group (1)

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

Houston dermatologists

PE-backed 2 Not confirmed 4

Groups here: DermCare Management (2) · U.S. Dermatology Partners (2) · Westlake Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery (2)

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

Houston GI doctors

Not PE, corporate-owned 7

Groups here: Texas Digestive Disease Consultants (4) · GI Alliance: other Texas member practices (3)

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 Houston