High Costs In McAllen Prompt Inquiries Into Physician Ownership, Self-Referral And A Major Lobbying Campaign
Lobbying efforts by Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, in Edinburg, Texas, have steered hundreds of thousands of dollars to key lawmakers in hopes of blocking reforms that would restrict ownership of hospitals by physicians, the Associated Press/Dallas Morning News reports in a follow up to an article in yesterday"s New York Times. Doctor-owned hospitals "have been blamed for helping drive up health care costs." The hospital in question was "featured in a June article by The New Yorker that singled the area out for some of the highest health care costs in the country." The article has become a talking point for the White House on reform (7/30).
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