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NewsPhysician-owned hospital rules relax with House bill
In a small win for physician owners, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a GOP bill that amends health reform provisions that currently restrict physician-owned hospital construction Read more...
Physician-owned hospital fights reform limits
Physician Hospitals of America (PHA) has filed a formal notice of appeal in its ongoing battle against growth restrictions in the healthcare reform law that make it nearly impossible for Read more...
Physician-owned hospital wins Medicare approval days before ban
A physician-owned hospital in Addison, Texas, was built at warp speed and received a Medicare provider number just three days before the ban on new physician-owned hospitals took effect, the Dallas Read more...
MedCath could be health reform's first victim
Heart hospital operator MedCath Corp. (NASDAQ: MDTH) could vanish within a year, Modern Healthcare reports. Back in April, Forbes predicted that the healthcare reform bill would spell the end for Read more...
Physician-owned hospitals file lawsuit over ban
Yet another group has resorted to using the federal court system to get the government to hear a message that has been falling on deaf ears. This time, it's a group of physician-owned hospitals in Read more...
Reality of physician-ownership ban hitting home for hospitals
Health reform's ban on physician-owned hospitals has so far halted construction on 27 facilities, according to Molly Sandvig, executive director of the Physician Hospitals of America. Another 40 or Read more...
Physician-owned hospitals 'devastated' by reform
Not everyone is happy about the passage of healthcare reform, particularly physician-owned hospitals, which claim that the law will threaten thousands of healthcare jobs and compromise rural- and Read more...
More than half of planned physician-owned hospitals could miss reform deadline
If the existing Senate health reform bill were to pass as written, it would include restrictions on physician-owned hospitals that would prevent construction of new facilities, but grandfather in Read more...
Is reform a danger to physician-owned hospitals?
Are the health reform bills rolling forward designed to shut down physician-owned hospitals? Maybe, or maybe not, but that's definitely how a trade group representing such hospitals is presenting Read more...
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...
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