The Ninth Circuit will not reconsider its decision to force St. Luke’s Health System to unwind its purchase of Saltzer Medical Group, the largest physician practice group in the relevant Idaho market. The ruling leaves in place a victory for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the merger row. In February, …
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend
April 1, 2015 Leave a Comment
We don’t normally think of American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals as friends. After all, the AHA represents nonprofits, while the FAH represents for-profits. But in recent days something has brought them together: their mutual opposition to the physician-owned hospitals’ …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Ruling for FTC in Hospital Merger Challenge
February 10, 2015 Leave a Comment
The Ninth Circuit upheld a district court’s ruling ordering St. Luke’s Health System to unwind its purchase of the Saltzer Medical Group. The decision is another victory for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its renewed focus on potential competition concerns in health care. The FTC originally sued to …
FTC Seeks Public Comments in Advance of Health Care Competition Workshop
January 26, 2015 Leave a Comment
The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice will co-host a second workshop in the series “Examining Health Care Competition” on February 24-25, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The workshop will look at recent developments related to health care provider organization and …
$840 Million Available to Drive Practice Transformation
October 27, 2014 Leave a Comment
After a fairly quiet year in terms of new funding announcements, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has released an $840 million solicitation that seeks to drive 150,000 clinicians toward delivering value-driven care. Billed the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative or TCPI, the core of the …
CMS Refuses to Count Family Practice Residents Who Train in Family Practice Settings
September 30, 2014 Leave a Comment
Last Friday Eastern Maine Medical Center sued Health & Human Services over the way CMS counted the number of residents in its graduate medical education program. According to the complaint, CMS refuses to count some of the hospital’s family practice residents. Guess why. Because their training occurred …