Law360, New York ( February 10, 2015, 4:10 PM EST) -- This article briefly describes transactions completed during 2014 by IPC The Hospitalist Company in the specialty physician practice acquisition space and several takeaways and trends to be gleaned from them. IPC manages a large group of practices focused on the delivery of hospital medicine and related facility-based services. IPC providers manage the care of patients in coordination with primary care physicians and specialists in over 1,100 facilities in 27 states across the U.S., providing care to over 1 million patients annually. IPC employs a physician practice management model whereby it provides management services from the "hub" in the hub-and-spoke model to individual local practices. The transactions described in this article is another example of the fervent activity of private equity and publicly traded companies that employ a PPM model with a vision toward consolidating and profiting from specialty-focus physician practice management....