Physician-Owned Hospitals Struggle with Health Reform

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As Americans continue to decipher and digest the ramifications of health care reform, Oklahoma's physician-owned hospitals are faced with their own uncertainties.

A piece of the health care legislation enacted March 23 specifically speaks to the future of hospitals with physician ownership. In Oklahoma, that's 17 facilities that are partly or fully owned by physicians, according to the Physician Hospitals of America organization. Eleven are in Oklahoma City, three in Tulsa and one each in Edmond, Muskogee and Owasso.

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Physician-Owned Hospitals Struggle with Health Reform

Karen Rieger, chairwoman of the health care section of local law firm Crowe & Dunlevy, said there's some ambiguity concerning the specifics of the legislation, but it appears that future growth of physician-owned hospitals will be curtailed.

The health...

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