Does the legislation ban physician-owned hospitals?
The legislation would ban new physician-owned hospitals and restrict existing facilities, unless they were the primary provider of Medicaid services. The AMA strenuously opposed this provision in the legislation and repeatedly advocated that physician-owned hospitals have achieved the highest quality scores in some markets and have been shown to provide more net community benefits through uncompensated care and taxes than not-for-profit competitors as a share of total revenues.
