In fact, while 40 percent of all participating hospitals received a four- or five-star rating on Hospital Compare, a whopping 67 percent of participating physician-owned hospitals earned a four- or five-star rating.
Blake Curd, MD, president of Physician Hospitals of America, called the numbers “astonishing, but not surprising.”
“Physician-led healthcare delivers high-quality results,” he said. “When you couple patient satisfaction with CMS quality data, there is no doubt patients do much better when they are treated at a physician-owned hospital.”
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