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The CMS giveth ... Specialty hospital developers celebrate end of ban.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 14-AUG-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: Matthew DoBias

The two heavyweights of the hospital lobby collectively took one on the chin last week, when the CMS landed a knockout blow by allowing a moratorium on specialty hospitals to expire on Aug. 8.

But both the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals said they are reluctant to put away the gloves just yet and vowed a rematch.

"We will continue to fight physician ownership of hospitals,'' said Mary Beth Savary Taylor, vice president of federal relations for the AHA. "We believe that physician self-referral to limited-service hospitals should be banned.''

In a statement released last week, the federation said the CMS' Specialty Hospital Strategic and Implementing Plan, which it released to...

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