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Case study: Physician-owned hospitals remain profitable
As FierceHealthcare readers know, physician-owned hospitals are a big bone of contention with hospitals. In fact, the American Hospital Association would like to ban doctors completely from referring... Read more...
Obama gets some hospital support for turning MedPAC into rate-setting authority
While the majority of industry groups remain opposed to the idea, President Obama has won over some hospitals to his proposal to form an independent commission which would determine how much Medicare... Read more...
Hospital groups seek to use reform to regulate physician-owned hospitals
It's no secret that there's no love lost between traditionally-structured hospitals and physician-owned facilities. After all, traditional hospitals claim that the physician-owned players cherry-pick... Read more...
State hospital groups propose value-based payment reform
The deal cut by a group of large hospital associations to trim back $155 billion in federal health payment cuts may be in danger if a competing proposal centered around value-based payment gains... Read more...
Medicare, Medicaid cuts could amount to $240B over 10 years
The American Hospital Association expressed dismay following an address President Obama gave this past weekend discussing proposed White House federal payment cuts that could amount to an estimated... Read more...
Hospital lobby asked to look for healthcare savings
Can hospitals really deliver healthcare savings? The Senate Finance Committee is asking them to deliver, specifically by finding ways to shave costs off of Medicare and Medicaid over the next decade.... Read more...
Groups share details on $2T cost-savings offer
Still wondering how a collection of even the most powerful healthcare groups can shave $2 trillion off the growth in healthcare costs over the next decade? This week's letter from the American... Read more...
Antitrust laws could hobble healthcare reform
A couple of weeks ago, President Obama and several major interest groups announced that they'd be able to cut $2 trillion off of the growth in healthcare spending over the next decade. That sounds... Read more...
Senators ponder varied tax increases, including non-profit hospital tax
Obviously, if we're going to lay out billions--if not trillions--to reform the U.S. health system, we'll have to pay for it somehow. The problem is, funding health reforms almost certainly means... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: AHA challenging legislators' cost-saving ideas
The American Hospital Association is not pleased with several proposals being considered by the Senate Finance Committee as approaches to lowering Medicare costs. The committee is considering a... Read more...
