{"id":55764,"date":"2010-11-30T15:55:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=55764"},"modified":"2010-12-01T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T20:08:53","slug":"opinion-awaited-in-tsjh-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=55764","title":{"rendered":"Opinion Awaited in TSJH Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=55765\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/11\/thumb_Texas-Spine-and-Joint-Hospital-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_Texas-Spine-and-Joint-Hospital\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-55765\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; A trial slated for December 9 is canceled in a lawsuit filed by Tyler-based Texas Spine and Joint Hospital and Physician Hospitals of America.   Instead, federal judge Michael Schneider will issue an opinion based on information already gathered.   The plaintiffs are challenging a provision of the new health care reform law that curbs development of physician-owned hospitals.   The court found that the provision is retroactive but not unconstitutional, and plaintiffs await the explanation to be offered in the opinion.   Plaintiffs&#8217; lead counsel Scott Oostdyk says the Supreme Court has always highly disfavored retroactive laws.   Oostdyk says the opinion may be issued before Christmas, but possibly not till next year.<\/p>\n<p>The provision in question, Section 6001, prohibits physician-owned Medicare hospitals from expanding after March 23, 2010 and bans construction of any new physician-owned Medicare hospitals that are not Medicare certified prior to December 31, 2010.   For TSJH, the issue is a planned $27 million expansion of its existing facility that was well underway at the time of the passage of the PPACA. \u201cWe were in the middle of a multi-million dollar expansion project when the bill passed and, like so many other physician-owned hospitals, we were forced to stop immediately,\u201d Tony Wahl, TSJH CEO, noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A trial slated for December 9 is canceled in a lawsuit filed by Tyler-based Texas Spine and Joint Hospital and Physician Hospitals of America. Instead, federal judge Michael Schneider will issue an opinion based on information already gathered. The plaintiffs are challenging a provision of the new health care reform law that curbs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=55764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Opinion Awaited in TSJH Lawsuit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 00:25:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55764"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55994,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55764\/revisions\/55994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}