
Medicare seeks information and signals it may be time to thaw the rules that have frozen growth of physician-owned hospitals.
Richard Payerchin is senior editor of Medical Economics.

Medicare seeks information and signals it may be time to thaw the rules that have frozen growth of physician-owned hospitals.

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