Courts referee doctor-hospital battles

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Relationships between hospital boards and medical staffs are straining in the entire United States as more physicians open facilities that compete with hospital and as hospital budgets are reducing. As per the court filings the medical staffEs lawsuit claims that the hospital is putting financial gain above the interests of patients and that the hospital has embarked upon a dangerous and unlawful effort to destroy the legally recognized role of the medical staff in protecting patients in the hospital.

United States, Legal issues & crime, Management dynamics, Legal/Government Regulation, Management, Company legal issue, Cases, Practice, Company business management

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Firm foundation? Going tax-exempt might solidify your market standing - but your hospital partner could end up as the only winner

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Tax-exempt foundations are models for physician-hospital organizations that contain significant drawbacks. On one hand, they give physicians access to tax-exempt financing, provide regular hours and opportunities for education and research. However, physicians lose autonomy and control over revenue, patient records and other elements of their former practices. Hospitals are given most of the power in such arrangements; physicians should only enter into them if there is no other alternative.

Analysis, Planning, Charitable trusts, Tax exemption, Tax exemptions, Hospital-physician joint ventures

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Doctors, capital partner to buy Chicago hospitals

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Physicians at Michael Reese and Grant hospitals in Chicago, Ill., have partnered with Doctors Community Healthcare Corp. to purchase the two hospitals from Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. Reese and Grant physicians had already formed an alliance to ensure that they were able to actively participate in decisions affecting the future of the hospitals.

Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Medical professions, COL, HCA Inc.

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