Doctor-owned hospitals survive latest threat

Dallas Business Journal - by Joyce Tsai Staff writer


Physician-owned hospitals in this go-around have prevailed over the latest legislative threat to their survival. A provision seeking to ban physician-owned hospitals did not make it into the final version of a bill that was signed by President Obama last week to re-authorize funding of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Metroplex has 21 such existing facilities and more than 20 in development, according to the Physician Hospitals of America, a trade group. “We are definitely pleased it got dropped from the bill,” said Debbie Hay, president of the physician-owned Texas Institute for Surgery in Dallas and president of the board of directors for Texas Physician Hospitals Advocacy Center in Austin.