title: Hospital asserts antitrust immunity as defense to false statements in Certificate of Need hearings.
abstract: This case and decision should be read narrowly. While the case implies that the hospital can act in violation of the antitrust laws at the CON level, it should be read more as a failure to persuade the CON Board as to credibility than as a broad extension of immunity.
mesh_terms: D016363:Antitrust Laws; D002567:Certificate of Need / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D013531:Surgicenters / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*