Doc ownership takes legal hit. The dismissal of Little Rock Cardiology Clinic's antitrust case against Baptist Health could create roadblocks for physician groups, some suggest.
When a federal judge in Arkansas tossed out an antitrust complaint, hospitals nationwide got some legal guidance on fighting physician-owned specialty hospitals. The court "ultimately boiled down to a simple, logical conclusion: A hospital cannot monopolize a market in which it doesn't offer a product," says general counsel for the Federation of American Hospitals Jeffrey Micklos, left.
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