Evaluation of costs and outcomes of physician-owned hospitals across common surgical procedures

The Affordable Care Act introduced restrictions on the creation of new physician-owned hospitals (POH). We sought to define whether POH status was associated with differences in care.Patients undergoing one of ten surgical procedures were identified using Medicare Standard Analytic Files. Patient and hospital-level characteristics and outcomes between POH and non-POH were compared.Among 1,255,442 patients identified, 14,560 (1.2%) were treated...