tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 6

SPECIALTY HOSPITALS: Texas 911 Call Could Spell An Emergency For Your Doctor's Specialty Hospital

3 questions your doctor should be askingThe weather forecast for doctor-owned specialty hospitals just got a lot stormier, so now's the time to patch your roof.Physicians who own single-specialty hospitals have been a recent source of controversy, and Medicare had a moratorium on new facilities for a couple of years. Now the death of a patient at West Texas Hospital in Abilene is drawing fresh scrutiny. What happened: Truck driver Sam Spivey went into West Texas for spinal discfusion surgery, and went into respiratory arrest. The West Texas staff had to call 911, and an ambulance took Spivey...

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