The St. Luke’s-Saltzer Antitrust Case: Can Antitrust and Health Care Reform Policies Converge?

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Monica Noether, Apr 29, 2014

Earlier this year, a federal judge sided with the Federal Trade Commission and the Idaho Attorney General and enjoined the acquisition of a physician practice that included 16 adult primary care physicians by a hospital that already employed eight adult PCPs. The ruling was based only on the alleged lessening of competition attributable to the horizontal overlap in adult PCP services, despite the trans