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News & Analysis Physician Owned Hospitals The Best of Times the Worse of Times
| Physician Owned Hospitals The Best of Times the Worse of Times |
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| Written by Scott Becker | |
| Friday, 18 January 2008 | |
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For physican owned hospitals in the United States, this is truly the best of times and the worst of times. Here's why . . . THE BEST OF TIMES 1. The moratorium on the development of physician owned hospitals ends. This past year, in August of 2006, after an initial legislative moratorium passed as part of the Medicare Modernization Act and a subsequent extension of the moratorium, the prohibition on the develpment on new hospitals by physicians ended. Thus, for the first time in several years, physicians no longer face a prohibition of developing a new hospital and becoming Medicare certified. Download the low resolution pdf here.  |
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