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Phase 1: Enactment & build · Step 1.6

Sign up providers & set participation rules

Months 6–18 · UHA Provider Enrollment; state licensing boardsDiscuss this step
← All system changes for this step

ACA ban on new physician-owned hospitals

continues—Provider payment & regulation
Today

Section 6001 bars new physician-owned hospitals from Medicare.

Under the plan

Retained under UHP to limit self-referral, subject to review by the Rates Board.

Trade-off

Limits self-referral; blocks a potential source of new surgical capacity.