The ACA imposed a moratorium on physician-owned hospitals in 2010, preventing the development of 37 planned physician-owned hospitals, according to a report the Trump administration released in late 2018.
Since the moratorium took effect, several physician-owned hospitals been sold or shut down.
Three to know:
El Paso (Texas) Specialty Hospital, a physician-owned facility, closed at the end of 2018 for financial and operational reasons.
Healthcare acquisition and management company New Manna Augusta bought Casper, Wyo.-based Summit Medical Center, which was previously a physician-owned hospital, March 1.
The physician-owned Clarksville, Ind.-based Kentuckiana Medical Center closed in April after a decade of financial woes.
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