For practicing physicians
Physician-owned hospitals have always paid the same way: you keep the professional fee, you take a share of the facility, and you run the floor. That is the seat. There is no building yet. Founding physicians are being named now.
When there is an entity to own, founding physicians get first offer on equity. Distributions follow ownership, not referrals. That is how every legal physician-owned hospital is structured.
Block time. Who is in the room. The implant. The cash price on the wall. You do not wait on a system VP for a tray.
This is not an employment contract. Keep your tax ID. You practice here because you own it.
Doctors who come later buy in at whatever the hospital is then worth. You help write that before anyone else sets the formula.
MedPAC surveyed physician-owned specialty hospitals in 2005: physicians owned 60% on average, 73% at surgical hospitals. When those hospitals distributed profits, returns often exceeded 20% of the original investment in a year. We are not promising that number. That is what this kind of ownership has looked like. MedPAC, March 2005.
Twelve physicians have already asked to be founding staff. Same specialties you’d need to open a real hospital.
Elena M. Voss, MD
Orthopedic surgery · Oklahoma City, OK
“I'm done sending joints to a hospital that won't tell me the price until after I operate.”
James K. Adeyemi, MD
Internal medicine · Dallas, TX
“I'll take the hospitalist service if the rates are on the wall.”
Priya N. Shah, MD
Anesthesiology · Salt Lake City, UT
“One price in the OR. Not a cash list and an insurance list.”
Tomas R. Ellison, MD
Emergency medicine · Wichita, KS
“I'll cover the ED when we can staff a real door. Not a stand-alone ER in a strip mall.”
Hannah C. Briggs, DO
Obstetrics and gynecology · Fort Collins, CO
“Labor shouldn't start with 'we'll bill you later.'”
Omar L. Haddad, MD
Radiology · Tulsa, OK
“Cash MRI is often cheaper than the contracted one. I'll read those studies.”
Grace Y. Park, MD
General surgery · Austin, TX
“I'd send my own family if I can say the price out loud and I own a piece of the place.”
Nathan B. Crowe, MD
Family medicine · Provo, UT
“I want to treat strep without a prior auth. Save the insurance for cancer.”
Marisol E. Quintana, MD
Pediatrics · San Antonio, TX
“Parents ask me what a stay costs. I should be able to tell them.”
David S. Lindholm, MD
Cardiology · Oklahoma City, OK
“I'll take call when we can staff a real night. Not before.”
Aisha R. Bennett, MD
Oncology · Denver, CO
“An infusion chair shouldn't bill like a hospital just because the sign says hospital.”
Cole F. Nakamura, MD
Hospital medicine · Kansas City, KS
“I'll help write the cash menu. Then I want a share of the place that posts it.”
Specialty, where you practice, and what you’d actually do. Jim Davis reads these and calls back.
In 2010 Congress closed new physician-owned hospitals to Medicare. If the plan is to own a hospital and bill Medicare for patients you send, that door is shut. CMS on physician-owned hospitals. This hospital posts cash prices and takes a card. Insurance stays for cancer, a wreck, a transplant — not a strep test. Cash does not need Medicare’s blessing.
Posted cash prices. Real beds. You don’t start with your own emergency room. Walk the floors we modeled — that’s the building.
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