Fierce Health Payers June 26, 2019
As Senate lawmakers plan to mark up a sweeping piece of legislation aimed in part at curbing surprise bills, healthcare experts say the solutions before them could ultimately create some tricky entanglements for hospitals.
Among the potential speed bumps: corporate practice of medical laws.
In a nutshell, those laws bar corporations from directly employing physicians to ensure physicians work in the best interests of their patients. The laws differ from state to state, but in some places the laws block doctors from being directly employed by hospitals. That is why so many hospitals rely on contracted physicians within their walls.
But several proposals in Congress, including the Lower Health Care Costs Act to be examined by the Senate Health, Education,...
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