Envision leaves California, dodging major private equity verdict

July 25, 2024

MICHAEL MCAULIFF   

Envision Healthcare, a top private equity-backed emergency physician staffing company, is exiting California and avoiding a lawsuit that threatened the legality of its business model in the state.

The Nashville, Tennessee-based company had been battling the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, which sued in 2021 after Envision Healthcare won a contract that the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group previously held at Placentia-Linda Hospital in Placentia, part of the Orange-based University of California, Irvine Health system.

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