Too POSH for the public: Are physician-owned hospitals a drain on emergency care? (part II)

Notes 

1. General Accounting Office, GAO-03-683R. Specialty hospitals: information on national market share, physician ownership, and patients served. April 2003.
2. General Accounting Office, GAO-04-167. Specialty hospitals: geographic location, services provided, and financial performance. October 2003.
3. Government Accountability Office, GAO –06-520. General hospitals: operational and clinical changes largely unaffected by presence of competing specialty hospitals. April 2006.
4. MedPAC. Report to the Congress: physician-owned specialty hospitals. March 2005.
5. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Study of physician-owned specialty hospitals required in Section 507(c)(2) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
6. Guterman S . Specialty hospitals (a problem or a symptom?) . Health Affairs . 2006;25:95–105
7. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services EMTALA Technical Advisory Group . Report Number Three to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Minutes of meeting, Baltimore, October 26-28, 2005 . Bethesda, MD: Magnificent Publications; 2005;
8. American College of Emergency Physicians Board of Directors. Specialty hospitals: policy statement no. 400340. October 2004. Available at: http://www.acep.org/webportal/PracticeResources/PolicyStatements/hosp/SpecialtyHospitals.htm. Accessed June 14, 2006.
9. Pearlstein S. Free-market philosophy doesn’t always work for health care. Washington Post, June 8, 2005, p. D01.