A longstanding ban prohibiting rural Texas hospitals from employing physicians has been repealed in an effort to attract physicians to medically underserved communities in the state, according to an American Medical News report.
Under the revised law, hospitals can hire physicians if they are critical access hospitals, are the only hospital in their community and are located in counties with populations of less than 50,000. The law forbids hospital administrators from supervising or controlling physicians’ clinical practice and allows physicians to have a say in selecting their medical liability insurance.
The law went into effect immediately after Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed it May 12. The state has had a statute prohibiting corporate interference in medicine since the 1800s.
Read the American Medical News report on rural Texas hospitals and physicians.
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