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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...
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...
TX health system settles antitrust allegations for $700K
A Texas health system has settled allegations that it engaged in anti-competitive behavior by pressuring managed care companies to reject contracts with a physician-owned facility. The Texas attorney... Read more...
Children's health bill poses threat to physician-owned facilities
Physician-owned hospitals appear to be the punching bag in a bill moving through congress aiming to provide health insurance coverage to low-income children. Critics of the facilities, in particular... Read more...
Study: Physician-owned facilities generate significant economic value
Physician-owned hospitals have been under pressure over the last couple of years. It has been driven largely by concern from traditional hospital industry leaders, who don't like competition from... Read more...
Doctor ownership of hospitals faces legal setback
Put simply, physician-owned hospitals make other hospitals livid, as they often scoop up profitable business and (to hear the non-physician-owned hospitals tell it) suck the lifeblood out of... Read more...
U.S. Reps give boost to physician-owned hospitals
In recent times, physician-owned hospitals have taken a lot of fire in Congress--but... Read more...
