Physician Hospitals of America

04/10/2023

Dr. Glaucomflecken is one of the great speakers at PHA's 2023 Leadership Summit this September in Arizona.

Click here to learn more and to secure your early registration discount rate:
https://physiciansled.com/phas-2023-leadership-summit/

03/26/2023

The decline in students’ interest in emergency medicine does not only affect the workforce — it also affects our patients.

03/21/2023

https://www.al.com/opinion/2023/03/guest-opinion-alabama-hospitals-need-competition.html

Reform needs to break up the large system of hospital mergers. acquisitions, and consolidation. This is destroying competition, limiting care options for patients, and burning out our physician and nurse workforce.

02/28/2023

Some government antitrust regulators are hinting at their support for expanding physician-owned hospitals, another sign of the Biden administration’s increasing scrutiny of consolidation among the nation’s health systems.

02/14/2023

Share the love about physician-led hospitals.

Ask your member of Congress to repeal the arbitrary ban created by Section 6001 of the ACA.

01/27/2023

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-vitals-fa3e5ebf-f7a7-41dd-9919-930a222d8ea0.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare

Keep up with health care politics, policy and business

01/27/2023

A new rural hospital payment model launched in 2023 has few takers so far.

12/01/2022

"Stop hospital consolidations to lower health care prices for all Americans"

The authors - Brian Miller, MD, and Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD - argue:
"Physician-owned hospitals represent a pragmatic lever through which policymakers can promote hospital market entry, directly combating hospital consolidation."

With 2023 bringing divided government and inflation at levels not seen in decades, lowering the cost of health care is a political and moral necessity. Over the years, Americans have found that ins…

09/29/2022

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/physician-led-hospitals-earn-nearly-7-times-higher-patient-experience-rating-study

Physician-led hospitals outperformed their counterparts in quality of care, cost of care and access to care, according to a recent study. | Physician-led hospitals outperformed their counterparts in quality of care, cost of care and access to care, a recent NDP Analytics study showed.

09/21/2022

A new study finds that physician-led hospitals can serve as a tool to address consolidation by adding high quality and efficient choices for patients in the nation's healthcare markets.

Click here to learn more:
https://physiciansled.com/new-impact-study-identifies-solution-to-healthcare-consolidation/

09/21/2022

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/rural-hospitals-face-funding-cliff?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top

Some rural hospital funding is held up in Congress, with some facilities are on the edge of closing.

09/03/2022

Physician-led and owned hospitals feature a variety of models.

Learn more:

https://physiciansled.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/About-POHs.pdf

08/15/2022

The commercial market will likely pay way more for certain drugs than the government.

08/12/2022

Physician ownership found in various segments of the healthcare system exists to promote coordinated, efficient, timely and high quality care for patients.

Yet one segment of the system - the hospital - is denied ownership due to an anti-competitive provision in the ACA.

07/15/2022

PHA applauds the Healthy Future Task Force's proposal to repeal the moratorium on physician-led hospitals to ensure that all Americans can access the high quality and efficient care created by physician-led hospitals.

Learn more about the proposal:
https://physiciansled.com/phas-statement-on-the-house-republicans-healthy-future-task-force-recommendation/

06/24/2022

Physician-led hospitals outperform Healthgrades' 2022 Outstanding Patient Experience Awards:

https://physiciansled.com/physician-led-hospitals-outperform-healthgrades-2022-outstanding-patient-experience-awards/

06/13/2022

A legal campaign to force changes at giant healthcare systems has new backing from John Arnold, a philanthropist who confronted pharmaceutical giants over drug prices.

06/03/2022

A competitive health care marketplace is essential.