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S1 Ep154: The time is now for physician-owned hospitals, with Carlos Cardenas, M.D., president of Physician-Led Healthcare for America
For the first time, CMS isn't asking whether physician-owned hospitals should be part of Medicare's care delivery models — it's asking how.
Carlos Cardenas, M.D., a practicing gastroenterologist, founder and chairman of DHR Health in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, and president of Physician-Led Healthcare for America, joins Medical Economics Senior Editor Richard Payerchin to explain why that distinction matters. They cover how Section 6001 of the ACA froze competition in hospital markets, what the data actually shows about cost and quality at physician-led facilities, how to address the…
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