Medicare & Doctors Who Work for Hospitals

In the last few years, there has been something of an acquisition boom in doctors’ practices, as hospitals have been snapping them up.

Congress may have just cut a deal to slow down all that deal making. As part of the big budget agreement between the White House and congressional leaders, lawmakers want to take away a big incentive driving those mergers: the higher prices that doctors’ offices could charge Medicare when they were owned by a hospital.