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S1 Ep180: Why private equity can own a hospital and a physician can't, with Gary Price, M.D., of The Physicians Foundation
Physicians have been effectively barred from owning hospitals since 2010, when a provision of the Affordable Care Act finished what the Stark law started.
Gary Price, M.D., MBA, president of The Physicians Foundation, argues the restriction was a mistake from the beginning, built on a reading of the Dartmouth Atlas that researchers corrected 25 years ago and policymakers never revisited. He talks with Medical Economics Senior Editor Richard Payerchin about what the research actually shows on cost and quality at physician-owned hospitals, why markets that have them consolidated less than the…
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