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First, our assessment of physician ownership of specialty hospitals dichotomized specialty hospitals into physician owned and non physician owned groups.
We then compared demographics and prevalence of common comorbid conditions for patients treated in physician owned and non physician owned specialty hospitals.
Finally, we examined whether the socio-demographic characteristics of the neighborhoods where physician owned and non physician owned specialty hospitals differed, as measured by zip code level data.
Our findings suggest that physician owned and non physician owned specialty orthopedic hospitals differ significantly both in terms of hospital characteristics and the patient populations they serve.
We compared hospital characteristics of physician owned and non physician owned specialty hospitals including procedural volumes of major joint replacements (THR and TKR), hospital teaching status, and for profit status.
Then, we compared the number of hospital beds, proportion of hospitals reporting a formal affiliation with a medical school, and proportion that are for-profit for the physician owned and non physician owned specialty hospitals using similar statistical methods.
We then determined the ownership of each of these 40 specialty hospitals (i.e., physician owned or non physician owned) using two complementary sources of information on specialty hospital ownership.
This resulted in the identification of 25 physician owned specialty hospital, 8 non physician owned specialty hospitals; and uncertain ownership for seven specialty hospitals.
Lost in this debate is a lack of explicit acknowledgement that there are both physician owned specialty hospitals and non physician owned specialty hospitals.
Characteristics of the 29 physician owned specialty hospitals and 8 non physician owned specialty orthopedic hospitals are displayed in Table 1.
