Access, quality, and costs of care at physician owned hospitals in the United States

"Using a comprehensive list of POHs [physician owned hospitals] across the United States and contemporary data, we found no evidence that POHs systematically avoid poorer patients or those from ethnic and racial minority groups. POHs also performed equally to non-POHs on a wide array of measures of quality of care, costs, and payments for care. These findings indicate a need to re-examine existing public policies that target all hospitals with physician owners."

Access, quality, and costs of care at physician owned hospitals in the United States: observational study
DM Blumenthal, EJ Orav, AB Jena, DM Dudzinski, ST Le,  AK Jha, KT Li
BMJ 2015; 351 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h4466


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