Physician-owned hospitals might make a comeback thanks to congressional action supported by data crunched by lawyers and experts with the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the American Medical Association (AMA).
Last week, the Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act (PDF) was reintroduced in Congress by Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma. The act would remove restrictions on the creation of physician-owned hospitals enstated in the Affordable Care Act, Fierce helathcare reports. Meanwhile, in a white paper that has not yet been peer reviewed, antitrust lawyers and experts with the DOJ, the FTC and the AMA laid out the case for these hospitals. Read more..
