A U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds That the Theory of Harm Articulated by the FTC in Hospital Merger Cases is Fully Applicable to Physician Acquisition Cases

“Oh help me, please doctor, I’m damaged”—What does the Future Hold for Hospital-Physician Acquisitions?* With the ink still drying on the Ninth Circuit’s opinion affirming the Idaho federal district court’s order requiring St. Luke’s Health System to unwind its acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group—a for-profit, physician-owned, multi-specialty group comprising approximately 44 physicians located in Nampa, Idaho—you may ask what the decision means for other providers? 

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