/ en Sat, 26 Apr 2025 07:34:40 -0500 Fri, 02 Jun 17 14:29:00 -0500 /news/headline/2017-06-02-aha-fah-urge-senate-oppose-attempts-weaken-physician-self-referral-law <p>The AHA and Federation of ����������s yesterday expressed strong opposition to the Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act (S. 1133), and any other legislation that would repeal or modify current law to expand self-referral to physician-owned hospitals. The bill was introduced last month by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) as a Senate companion to H.R. 1156. “For more than 15 years, community hospitals, policymakers, the business community and governmental advisory bodies have grappled with overutilization and higher health care costs caused by self-referral to physician-owned hospitals,” the organizations said in a <a href="/advocacy-issues/letter/2017/170601-let-aha-fah-senate-s1113.pdf" target="_blank">letter</a> to members of the Senate. “Conflicts of interest are inherent in these arrangements, whereby physicians refer their patients to hospitals in which they have an ownership interest. Seven years ago, after a decade of studies and congressional hearings showing the adverse impact of these arrangements, Congress acted to protect the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the taxpayers that fund them by imposing a prospective ban on self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals. Nevertheless, some groups like the Physician Hospitals of America continue to attempt to unwind the law. Their proposals would harm patients, community hospitals and local businesses.”</p> Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:29:00 -0500 Limited Service providers /letter/2017-06-01-aha-fah-senate-re-patient-access-higher-quality-health-care-act-2017-s1113 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Limited Service providers /news/headline/2017-02-24-aha-fah-urge-congress-oppose-attempts-weaken-physician-self-referral-law <p>The AHA and Federation of ����������s today expressed strong opposition to the Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act (H.R. 1156), and any other legislation that would repeal or modify current law to expand self-referral to physician-owned hospitals. “For more than 15 years, community hospitals, policymakers, the business community and governmental advisory bodies have grappled with overutilization and higher health care costs caused by self-referral to physician-owned hospitals,” the organizations said in a <a href="/advocacy-issues/letter/2017/170224-let-physownedhr1156.pdf" target="_blank">letter</a> to members of Congress. “Conflicts of interest are inherent in these arrangements, whereby physicians refer their patients to hospitals in which they have an ownership interest. Seven years ago, after a decade of studies and congressional hearings showing the adverse impact of these arrangements, Congress acted to protect the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the taxpayers that fund them by imposing a prospective ban on self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals. Nevertheless, some groups like the Physician Hospitals of America continue to attempt to unwind the law. Their proposals would harm patients, community hospitals and local businesses.” </p> Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:16:00 -0600 Limited Service providers /letter/2017-02-24-fah-and-aha-strongly-oppose-hr-1156-patient-access-higher-quality-health-care-act Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600 Limited Service providers /letter/2015-05-27-hospital-groups-house-committee-ways-and-means-maintain-limits-physician-owned Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500 Limited Service providers /testimony/2015-05-19-testimony-house-ways-means-health-subcommittee-preserve-ban-physician-self Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500 Limited Service providers