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U.S.: FTC imposes conditions on UHS’s proposed acquisition of Ascend Health Corporation

By  |  October 7, 2012

Hospital management company Universal Health Services, Inc. will sell an acute inpatient psychiatric facility in the El Paso, Texas/Santa Teresa, New Mexico area to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that UHS’s proposed acquisition of Ascend Health Corporation would be anticompetitive. The settlement is the latest example of the FTC’s work to protect consumers from anticompetitive acquisitions and higher health care costs.

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