Physician-Owned Hospitals

Physician-Owned Hospitals | FAH Policy Blog Team

Physician-Owned Hospitals are Bad for Patients and Communities

April 24, 2023

Written by Chip Kahn & Stacey Hughes For decades, the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act (“Stark Law”) has protected the Medicare program, its beneficiaries and communities from the inherent conflict of interest created when physicians […]

Physician-Owned Hospitals

COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OPPOSE LEGISLATION (H.R. 977/S. 470) TO ALLOW UNFETTERED GROWTH OF SELF-REFERRAL TO PHYSICIAN-OWNED HOSPITALS

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Hospital Integration | Physician-Owned Hospitals | Managed Care | Site-Neutral Payments | Transparency

Statement for the Record regarding the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee’s hearing on “Lowering Unaffordable Costs: Examining Transparency and Competition in Health Care.”

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Physician-Owned Hospitals | FAH Policy Blog Team

New Analysis Reaffirms Need to Maintain Current Law Banning Self-Referral to Physician-Owned Hospitals

March 28, 2023

Data from the health care consulting firm Dobson | Davanzo, released recently by the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) and the American Hospital Association (AHA), shows that physician-owned hospitals (POHs), when compared to other hospitals, […]