In the past decade, private equity groups have gone from taking over a handful of practices to working with as many as 8% of the nation's ophthalmologists.
A Supreme Court ruling in June says prosecutors must not only prove a prescription was not medically justified ― possibly because it was too large or dangerous, or simply unnecessary ― but also that the prescriber knew as much.
SA Hospital Acquisition Group LLC, which owns South City Hospital, "entered into an asset purchase agreement with American Healthcare Systems a few months ago," though no public announcement has been made.
Many comments expressed support for significant changes, including those that argued for deemphasizing (or even abandoning) the consumer welfare standard.