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Archive > April, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 4

This Just In

What Does ObamaCare Mean for You?

Here's how President Obama's healthcare package could impact your facility.

  • More insured patients. The overall goal of the bill is to bring some 32 million Americans who currently lack coverage onto the insurance rolls by mandating that every U.S. citizen buy health insurance or face a tax penalty, and by prohibiting insurers from rejecting patients based on pre-existing conditions. Hospitals and ASCs are expected to benefit from an expanded pool of surgical candidates, although both will face cuts in Medicare reimbursement.
  • Physician-owned hospitals in peril. The bill prohibits existing facilities from growing and bans new ones from contracting with Medicare. Dec. 31, 2010, is the deadline by which physician-owned hospitals must have achieved Medicare certification in order to be grandfathered into the bill. The Physicians Hospitals of America estimates a little over 60 physician-owned hospitals currently in development would be unable to make that deadline to receive Medicare certification.
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