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Introduction of POHs Could Lead to Reduced Overall and Medicare Margins for Existing Rural Community Hospitals
Our analysis shows that the introduction of a POH could negatively impact the financial health of existing SCHs by siphoning profitable service types and reducing their proportion of healthier, commercially insured patients.
MACRA Decision Guide
AHA's MACRA Decision Guide will help hospitals and clinicians determine which QPP track would be best to pursue.
New Analysis Validates Need to Preserve Restrictions on the Growth of Physician-owned Hospitals
As some members of Congress continue to propose weakening Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and loosening restrictions on the growth of existing POHs, new data from Dobson | DaVanzo show that POHs report fewer quality measures and perform worse on readmission penalties compared to full-service community hospitals.
Analysis of Selected Medicare Quality Measure Reporting Data by Hospital Ownership
Dobson | DaVanzo recently examined Medicare claims data comparing demographic and clinical characteristics of facilities and patients receiving care at physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and all other acute care hospitals (non-POHs). That report showed that relative to POHs, non-POHs care for older, more medically complex patients who are on average burdened with multiple co-morbid conditions, while also operating on lower margins and providing more uncompensated and unreimbursed care.
MACRA Tracker A resources evaluation tool
MACRA Tracker: A tool to help evaluate where to invest implementation resources