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Battle over Georgia's CON rule flares up once more
Ambulatory Surgery Reimbursement Update, January 8, 2008
The Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals filed a lawsuit December 31, 2007 to overturn a new state rule that allows surgeons to open free-standing ASCs without going through the same certificate-of-need (CON) process that other ASCs must go through, according to an article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Hospitals disagree with the December 13, 2007 CON ruling (effective January 1, 2008), because "physician-owned surgery centers siphon off lucrative commercially insured patients, leaving the burden of the uninsured for hospitals to bear," according to the article.
To read the Atlanta Business Chronicle article, click here.
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