tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 20

HEARINGS: Specialty Hospital Moratorium Bill Could Be DOA

Influential congressman promises to keep bill from leaving committeeA new bill could forbid doctors from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to specialty hospitals in which the doctors have an ownership interest.The Hospital Fair Competition Act of 2005 would bar such so-called "self-referrals." The bill's sponsors, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and ranking Democrat Max Baucus (D-MT), cite recent studies that show physicians only treat the least sick, and most profitable, patients in their own specialty hospitals (See PBI, Vol. 6, No. 18.).But the bill would "grandfather" existing specialty hospitals and allow them to...

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