tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 7

HOSPITALS: Specialty Hospitals Move In On Community Hospitals' Ability To Prosper, Study Says

Hospitals raise their defenses, fearing that specialty outfits may soon take over the neighborhood.Cardiac, orthopedic and surgical specialty hospitals are threatening to erode competing community hospitals' profitability--even in the absence of significant price competition.Competition for high-profit cases is leading community hospitals to leave quality and efficiency measures on the back burner, according to a Jan. 25 study from the Center for Studying Health System Change. The new study challenges recent hospital comparison reports from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.Specialty hospitals' impact on the health care industry has incited...

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