Fighting for their share. As Congress ponders how to fix the sustainable growth-rate formula for physicians, hospitals are wary they'll be a target.
As Congress tries to figure out how to fix Medicare's physician payment system, other sectors of the industry are poised to protect their share of reimbursement. Hospitals in particular are worried that they'll be targeted to fix the problem with doctors' reimbursement, which Bill Petasnick, left, blames for driving the growth of specialty hospitals, imaging centers and ambulatory surgical centers.
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