Hospitals' Opposition to Site Neutral Payments Prove They Are More Interested in Profiting from Owning Doctors than in Lowering Health Care Costs.

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Missouri Medicine Contributing Editor and the author of numerous books on practice management. He is a retired Internal Medicine physician in St. Louis.

Published: August 2021

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