Joseph, the picture you describe is happening in rural hospitals that are critical access. The hospital can charge a professional fee for an employed doc, and a technical fee. Plus they get reimbursed 115% of Medicare. At present the hospitals are willing to pass the extra revenue on to the doc's, but for how long, and how long will this windfall last? Not long. Then there will be a lot of employed doc's making less and they will be owned by someone who couldn't give a hoot about them. I am still privately owned and privately operated, solo. I am also making 50K less than hospital owned docs. The price of autonomy.
