Foundation Surgery Affiliates

The Voice

Each year our industry will face new legislative challenges couples with increasingly anti-competitive behavior between regular health system and the managed care industry. Our goal is to keep our industry alert and advised to the challenges we face and to confront those challenges together and fight them with facts, in a unified effort.

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  1. Introduction
  2. Executive Summary
  3. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  4. Facts and Arguments Supporting Physician Ownership
    1. AMA Specialty Hospitals: Myths vs. Facts
    2. AMA Statement on Specialty Hospitals
    3. HECG Report on Specialty Hospitals
    4. Kyl Report on Specialty Hospitals
    5. AAASC Report "The Attack on Niche Providers"
  5. Arguments by Our Opponents Against Physician Ownership
    1. AHA Trend Toward Niche Providers
  6. Our rebuttal to opponents arguments
    1. CHCA Response to AHA
    2. CHCA Congressional Talking Points
  7. National and State Legislative Agenda
    1. Position Paper on Medicare Reform
    2. Position Paper on Insurance Reform
    3. Position Paper on Competitive Health Care
    4. Position Paper on Tort Reform
  8. Legislation Supported in the 106th Congress
    1. Tort Reform HR 3359
  9. Legislation Opposed in the 106th Congress
    1. Hospital Fair Competition Acts of 2005
    2. Hospital Fair Competition Act Press Release
  10. Indiana
    1. Legislation Supported
      1. Infectious Disease Reporting, HB 468
    2. Legislation Opposed
      1. Reporting Requirements, HB 1551
      2. Certificate of Need, SB 621
      3. ASC and Specialty Hospitals, SB 416
  11. Kansas
    1. Legislation Supported
      1. Tort Reform, SB 225
    2. Legislation Opposed
      1. Moratorium on Specialty Hospitals, SB 235
  12. Missouri
    1. Legislation Supported
      1. Tort Reform, HB 393
      2. Nurse Ratio, SB 527
    2. Legislation Opposed
      1. Moratorium Extension, SB 127
  13. New Jersey
    1. Legislation Supported
      1. Nurse Ratio Requirements, A2004
      2. Nurse Ratios, A2159
      3. Hospital Infections, A2644
      4. HMO Medicaid Reform, A442
      5. Pain Suffering Limits, A549
      6. Tort Reform, S1285
  14. Ohio
    1. Legislation Supported
      1. Infectious Disease Reporting, HB 183
      2. Physician Reimbursement Fund, HB 255
    2. Legislation Opposed
      1. Moratorium on Specialty Hospitals, HB 71
  15. Oklahoma
    1. Legislation Supported
      1. Patient Task Force, HB 1626
      2. Tort Reform, HB 2047
    2. Legislation Opposed
      1. Specialty Hospitals Tax, HB 1327
      2. Provider Tax, HB 1859
  16. Pennsylvania
    1. Legislation Supported
      1. Tort Reform, HB 138
      2. Hospital Infections, HB 1790
      3. Tort Reform, SB 435
    2. Legislation Opposed
      1. Medicaid Reform, HB 1347
      2. Hospital Licensure, HB 1547
      3. Medicaid Reform, SB 696
  17. Texas
    1. Legislation Supported
      1. Infection Rates, HB 734
    2. Legislation Opposed
      1. Impact of Niche Hospitals, SB 872
      2. Physician Self-Referral, SB 3281
      3. Moratorium on Specialty Hospitals, HB 1622
      4. Hospital Licensure, HB 2471
      5. Physician Ownership, HB 3357
  18. Press Releases
    1. Modern Healthcare article "Citizen-legislator"
    2. Kansas City Star article "The patient-care prizefight"
    3. Kansas City Star article "Specialty hospital lawsuit alleges illegal conspiracy"
    4. Kansas City Business Journal article "Docs scope out legislative issues with surgery centers"
    5. Modern Healthcare article "All's fair in healthcare?"
  19. Independent Health Care Studies
    1. Galen Institute
      1. Specialty Heart Hospitals
      2. Congressional Briefing on the Benefits of Specialty Hospitals
      3. Specialization and its Discontents
      4. Use of Physician Self-Referral Laws to Deter Development of Specialty Hospitals
    2. American Academy of Health
      1. The Surgical Hospital - Threat or Non-Threat to the Local Hospital
    3. MEDPAC
      1. Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals Congressional Report
    4. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
      1. Report to Congress
      2. Study to Congress
    5. Federal Trade Commission
      1. Hospital Competition Senate Testimony
      2. Health Care and Competition Law and Policy Report
      3. Paul B. Ginsburg statement on competition in local health care markets
      4. "Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition" Congressional Report
  20. Information About Our Coalition
    1. Citizens Health Care Association (CHCA)
    2. Foundation Surgery Affiliates