Could you smell it in Cleveland, Carson City or Cape Cod? The stench filled the air in Paris, as taxi drivers burned tires to protest Uber. Having paid hundreds of thousands of Euros for their taxi permits, the drivers have been disrupted and they don’t like it. Will hospital administrators in Cleveland, Carson City and…
Tag: ownership
A Good Reason and the Real Reason for Restricting Physician Owned Hospitals
To paraphrase J.P. Morgan, we always have two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. The claimed good reason to restrict further physician owned Medicare certified hospitals, and the expansion of existing certified physician owned hospitals, is to prevent over utilization due to profit making motives. But traditional hospitals are induced…
Isn’t It Time to Re-Brand Non-Profit Hospitals?
So, I think it’s high time to re-brand non-profit hospitals. We should begin calling them non-taxpaying hospitals.
Physician Control of Hospitals from the Virus’s Point of View
Congress has legislated away new physician majority owned hospitals from Medicare participation. It didn’t legislate away control.