Book Description
This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by International Medical News Group on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 820 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: Specialty hospitals getting mixed reviews.(Practice Trends)
Author: Mary Ellen Schneider
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 33 Issue: 1 Page: 81(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

WASHINGTON -- Physicians and policy makers are divided on how to level the playing field on physician-owned specialty hospitals.

While the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is considering reforms that would eliminate some of the financial incentives to launch specialty hospitals, the American Medical Association in turn wants to preserve the competition that these hospitals provide.

At press time, MedPAC was preparing to vote on draft proposals that would refine the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) used to determine hospital payments to better account for differences in severity of illness among patients.