Doctors Unite in Support of Physician Office Exemption

We called and you answered!  Thank you to all the physicians who answered the urgent call-to-action and quickly signed on to the Medical Association letter (more than 600 doctors to date!) challenging the Alabama Hospital Association (ALAHA) and its member facilities’ contentions about the appropriateness of the physician office exemption (POE) from CON review.

As you know, ALAHA recently submitted a letter complaining of increasing instances of physicians performing interventional procedures in their offices instead of in acute care hospitals. ALAHA’s complaints are not in line with Alabama law and their letter was an attack on the practice of medicine and the services physicians safely provide patients in their offices.

Below is the letter the Medical Association sent in response to ALAHA’s assertions. We will continue to update you as things progress.

Thanks again!