Support For Contest Inwards The West
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
The determination yesteryear MA Attorney General Maura Healey to oppose the bargain allowing expansion of Partners Healthcare System too promising to sue the corporation if it tried i time again but got a boost from the West. As reported yesteryear Lisa Schencker inwards Modern Healthcare:
A federal appeals courtroom affirmed on Tuesday that Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System violated province too federal antitrust laws when it acquired a medical grouping inwards 2012, delivering the Federal Trade Commission about other victory inwards its starting fourth dimension major representative challenging a Dr. deal.
St. Luke's had argued that the acquisition would aid it better attention for the communities it serves. But the FTC, the Idaho attorney full general too the wellness system's Boise-based competitors—St. Alphonsus Health System too Treasure Valley Hospital—said the merger would decrease competition, translating into higher prices for consumers.
The appeals courtroom flora that it wasn't plenty for St. Luke's to state the acquisition would better care. The courtroom said St. Luke's besides would get got had to present that contest wouldn't suffer.
It's a determination that could get got implications for other wellness systems across the country.
“Providers considering acquisitions can't accept comfort inwards the fact that they get got laudable goals, that they're trying to compass efficiencies,” said David Ettinger, a lawyer for St. Alphonsus too a partner amongst the police theatre Honigman inwards Detroit. “That lonely is non sufficient to avoid antitrust concerns.”
A federal appeals courtroom affirmed on Tuesday that Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System violated province too federal antitrust laws when it acquired a medical grouping inwards 2012, delivering the Federal Trade Commission about other victory inwards its starting fourth dimension major representative challenging a Dr. deal.
St. Luke's had argued that the acquisition would aid it better attention for the communities it serves. But the FTC, the Idaho attorney full general too the wellness system's Boise-based competitors—St. Alphonsus Health System too Treasure Valley Hospital—said the merger would decrease competition, translating into higher prices for consumers.
The appeals courtroom flora that it wasn't plenty for St. Luke's to state the acquisition would better care. The courtroom said St. Luke's besides would get got had to present that contest wouldn't suffer.
It's a determination that could get got implications for other wellness systems across the country.
“Providers considering acquisitions can't accept comfort inwards the fact that they get got laudable goals, that they're trying to compass efficiencies,” said David Ettinger, a lawyer for St. Alphonsus too a partner amongst the police theatre Honigman inwards Detroit. “That lonely is non sufficient to avoid antitrust concerns.”