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Hospitals fight looser rules for independent surgery centers

2/27/2009

A rule allowing general surgeons to operate free-standing surgery clinics is on hold while a legal challenge from hospital associations is pending, a spokesman for the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals said.

“We asked the court to hold a preliminary hearing so the rule won’t be applied right now,” said Leo Reichert, spokesman for the Tifton, Ga.-based alliance. “We don’t want anyone to build a surgery center while this is pending.”

The alliance, which represents nonprofit and publicly owned hospitals in Georgia, filed a motion in Dougherty County Superior Court on Dec. 28 asking for the overturn of a rule to allow general surgeons to bypass the certificate of need process to opening ambulatory surgery centers, Mr. Reichert said.

Read this article by Beverly Carroll from the January 27, 2008 issue of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

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