A case of wrongful use of quality management. Summit Health, Ltd., v. Pinhas.
Summit Health, Ltd., v. Pinhas liberalized the jurisdiction of the Sherman Antitrust Act to include cases of intrastate hospital credentialing. The U.S. Supreme Court decision eased the requirements for plaintiffs to sue when they perceived that health care organizations were acting as monopolies. The court removed the defense that a plaintiff had to prove that the decision of a health care organization affected interstate commerce for the case to be heard in court. Important as the case is in antitrust law, however, greater lessons can be gained by health care organizations from analyzing the events that led to the lawsuit.
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D016363:Antitrust Laws; D015141:Los Angeles; D008504:Medical Staff Privileges / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States