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• Changes ahead for surgical hospital?
  Changes ahead for surgical hospital? Modesto Bee, CA - Sep 2, 2006 development of new surgical hospitals or expansions. In 2005, there were about 100 specialty hospitals with physician owners or inv
• Competition: The act or process of competing
  Competition: The act or process of competing New Albany Tribune, IN - 16 hours ago As many of you know, there are tentative plans for as many as three for-profit specialty hospitals to be built in C
• Hospital Group Criticizes CMS Plan To Regulate Specialty Hospitals
  Hospital Group Criticizes CMS Plan To Regulate Specialty Hospitals Kaiser network.org, DC - Aug 15, 2006 A CMS plan for regulation of physician-owned specialty hospitals would "neither meaningf
• Online Extra: A federal fact sheet on specialty hospitals
  Online Extra: A federal fact sheet on specialty hospitals Great Falls Tribune, MT - Sep 4, 2006 To provide a foundation for the report, CMS reviewed a broad range of previous studies of specialty hosp

Issue Brief No. 62

Issue Brief No. 62 Specialty Hospitals: Focused Factories or Cream Skimmers? Between 1997 and 2002, 11 specialty hospitals emerged in the 12 communities HSC studies.1 specialty hospitals. That act also directed MedPAC and the Secretary of the Physician-owned specialty hospitals, thus far, do not have lower costs for Select Medical Corporation Developing a national network of specialized, acute healthcare facilities and services including long term acute care hospitals, inpatient and outpatient relative to specialty hospitals. After consideration of the results of the While the emergence of specialty hospitals makes pointed the need for such