Mitchell Li News Today

The Senate has asked three private-equity firms for info on how they run or staff hospital emergency departments to see if private equity’s role has harmed patients.

Dr. Mitchell Li is advocating for a national ban on corporate medicine, citing the deterioration of the profession since the 1970s.

Authorities have not done enough to crack down on the problem, physicians and academicians noted

Patients arriving at Asheville's Mission Hospital in ambulances sometimes wait hours before acceptance into the emergency department.

It follows Envision, and physicians consider further consequences of difficult market

Two doctor employees say their hospitals order excess tests and overuse trauma codes, as well as engaging in other fraudulent practices.

A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors.

Doctors, consumer advocates and some lawmakers are looking forward to a California lawsuit against private equity-backed Envision Healthcare. The case is part of a multistate effort to enforce rules banning corporate ownership of physician practices.

Advocates want to enforce statutes banning ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by physicians.

The push to reinvigorate laws restricting the corporate practice of medicine has plenty of skeptics, who view it as a misguided effort.