Limited-Service Providers
Limited-service providers, also known as “niche” or specialty providers, are not new, but the nature and pace of their growth is. They include heart hospitals, orthopedic hospitals, surgical hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), cancer hospitals and centers, dialysis clinics, pain centers, imaging centers, mammography centers, and a host of other narrowly focused providers. The last decade has seen explosive growth in both inpatient and ambulatory limited-service providers, increasingly owned, at least in part, by the physicians who refer patients to them.
The AHA is very concerned that the growth of limited-service providers, if left solely to market forces, will undermine access to health care services for communities across this country.
AHA News
- Feb 01, 2012 | Hospital groups urge Congress not to cut funding for hospital services
- Oct 28, 2011 | Research centers to focus on ways to improve clinical preventive services
- Oct 20, 2011 | AHE honors members for outstanding service
- Sep 27, 2011 | AHE campaign to honor environmental services departments
- Sep 08, 2011 | Scorecard assesses state performance on long-term services
- Sep 07, 2011 | More hospitals offering CAM services
- Aug 04, 2011 | Medicare reports on use of free preventive services, drug discount
- Aug 01, 2011 | Agencies issue rules, guidelines for women's preventive services
- Jul 20, 2011 | IOM weighs in on essential preventive health services for women
- Jun 20, 2011 | CMS reports on use of Medicare preventive services
Publications
- Jan 15, 2012 | A new leaf
- Jan 15, 2012 | Planning for another successful year
- Jan 15, 2012 | Aligning hospital designs with outcomes
- Jan 15, 2012 | Measures of success
- Jan 15, 2012 | Automated savings
- Jan 15, 2012 | Standard issues
- Jan 15, 2012 | Elements of care
- Jan 15, 2012 | The right impression
- Jan 15, 2012 | Spiritually uplifting
- Jan 15, 2012 | Construction Zone
Recent Efforts
- Nov 08, 2011 | Accountable Care Organizations: Guidance to Address Antitrust, Fraud & Abuse and Tax Exemption...
- Jul 05, 2011 | CMS Releases Three Proposed Rules for CY 2012
- May 18, 2011 | AHA Special Bulletin: AHA Model Comment Letters on ACO-Related Fraud and Abuse and Antitrust Issues
- Apr 29, 2011 | AHA Special Bulletin: CMS Issues Final Value-Based Purchasing Rule
- Nov 03, 2010 | AHA Special Bulletin: CMS Releases Final Rules For CY 2011 Hospital Outpatient/ASC Payment System, Physician Fee Schedule and Home Health Payment System
- Sep 27, 2010 | AHA letter to FTC, CMS, HHS regarding ACOs
- Sep 09, 2010 | Ask Your Legislators to Co-Sponsor Health IT Bills
- Aug 31, 2010 | AHA Comments to CMS Re: OPPS, ASC, GME, costs and Physician Self-Referral Proposed Rule for 2011
- Aug 11, 2010 | August Recess an Opportunity to Ask Your Legislators for Relief from CMS 'Coding Offset'
- Aug 02, 2010 | AHA Special Bulletin: CMS Releases FY 2011 Inpatient and Long-term Care Final Rule
Highlighted Resources