WHY WON’T CMS RELEASE PUBLIC INFORMATION?
Dear Reader:
Thousands of words have been written about physician-owned specialty hospitals. Yet, some basic information has not been disclosed: Of the specialty hospitals that were under development when the 18-month federal moratorium was imposed in November 2003, which ones were grandfathered in and which ones were stopped?
It seems like a pretty basic question. Yet, when one of our reporters posed that question in mid-April to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which makes those decisions, CMS refused to answer.
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