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Updated October 2026

Selling a medical practice to private equity: the data question

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Private equity buys a practice for its patients, payer contracts and doctors. AI companies are asking about something else: the paperwork your front office and billing team produce every day, which they now pay to license a copy of. Some buyers name healthcare administration among the fields they take, and they do not ask for patient charts.1,2

Match my companyWhat is it worth?

What they want

Prior authorizations, denials and scheduling rules

Your staff write all day outside the chart: prior authorization requests and appeals, denial follow-ups with payers, referral coordination, scheduling rules, front-desk scripts, credentialing checklists and the policy manual. That is the repeated, rule-following work buyers say they look for, and they license email, documents, chat and billing records from businesses with a large enough office team.3,4,5

Much of that admin work names patients, so expect a license to narrow to procedures and templates. Buyers say sensitive health records and data held for others can stay out, and you can usually leave out any system, folder or record type. Ask each buyer who strips names and details, and whether you approve a sample first.6,7,8

Who fits

Is my practice big enough?

Most buyers want 20 to 30 or more people, and a few state no minimum. A multi-specialty group being rolled up by a sponsor is the most likely fit, and a two-doctor office usually is not, yet. Not every buyer takes healthcare at all, so the quiz asks your industry first and introduces you only to the buyers that take a practice like yours.5,9,10,11,12

On money, no practice-specific price is published, and the general ranges mostly run $100K to $2M, as the buyers' own claims. Offers usually come within a few days to two weeks. Speeds vary, but payment is usually around 3-6 weeks after signing, sometimes longer.13,14,15,16,17,18

Is my practice big enough?
FactValue and source
Industries micro1 names

Technology; BPOs and recruiting firms; financial services; consulting; professional services; legal and compliance; healthcare administration; logistics and operations

[1] micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership page · company's own claim ·

Industries Polyshares names

Software, logistics, manufacturing, professional services, healthcare administration, financial services, retail, hospitality, construction and more

[2] Polyshares website · company's own claim ·

Who Mode takes

Most businesses or nonprofits need 20+ full-time US office employees; accounting firms 10+ and law firms 6+; several years of records they own

Its launch release says AI labs are prioritizing legal and accounting data.

[5] Mode company data site · company's own claim ·

During the sale

Tell the private equity buyer early

If you are mid-sale, raise any data conversation with the sponsor before signing. One law firm notes that a prior data sale comes up in diligence with the review and exclusions documented, and a healthcare deal team will look hard at anything near patient information. Clinical data, such as lab results, moves through specialist channels with their own review, which is a separate decision from licensing your office's procedures.19,20,21

FAQ

Questions, answered with sources

  • The office side of it. Some buyers name healthcare administration, and they say health records and client-held data stay out of a deal.1,2,6,7

  • Most buyers want 20 to 30 or more people, and a few state no minimum. A multi-specialty group is the likeliest fit, and a two-doctor office usually is not.5,10,11,12

  • Procedures, templates, knowledge bases, email, shared drives and tickets, with patient details removed. The written routines of the front office and billing team matter most.22,23

  • Yes, through specialist channels with their own review, such as hc1 licensing lab results through Protege. That is a separate decision from licensing your office's procedures.20,21

  • No practice price is published. General ranges mostly run $100K to $2M, as the buyers' own claims, so treat them as ranges, not a quote.13,14,15

  • Plan for it. Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz writes that a prior data sale comes up in diligence.19

  • Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.

  • Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.

Before you sign

Questions to talk through with your buyer

Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.

Questions for this kind of business

  • Which of our administrative records count as protected health information, and how will you remove them?
  • How do CCPA, GDPR, UK GDPR and state privacy laws apply, and is de-identified data still personal information?
  • Do professional rules apply (AICPA, IRC 7216, HIPAA, ABA Model Rule 1.17, insurance agency contracts, adviser rules, state boards)?

Questions for any buyer

  • Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
  • Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
  • Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
  • How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
  • What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
  • Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
  • Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?

How this page was made

Figures come from the published sources listed below, and what a buyer says about itself is its own claim. Anything marked as our estimate is ours, not a buyer quote. Drafted with AI help from our research, then checked against each source. Updated October 2026.

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Sources (23)

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  2. 2.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  3. 3.micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  4. 4.Mode company data site. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  5. 5.Mode company data site. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
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  7. 7.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  8. 8.Grepped security page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  9. 9.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  10. 10.Cognor Labs partners page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
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  12. 12.Grepped business page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  13. 13.micro1 company referral page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  14. 14.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  15. 15.Mode company data site. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  16. 16.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  17. 17.Mode press release (Business Wire, via Yahoo Finance), published 13 Oct 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  18. 18.Cognor Labs manufacturing page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  19. 19.Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz (Daniel Goldberg), published 1 Oct 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  20. 20.hc1 press release, published 12 Feb 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  21. 21.License My Data. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  22. 22.micro1 Enterprise Data Partnership page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  23. 23.Polyshares website. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.