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CA medical practice agrees to FTC deal over price-fixing charges
California's Alta Bates Medical Group has agreed to a consent order from the Federal Trade Commission, settling charges that its methods of negotiating with fee-for-service contracts payers for... Read more...
Antitrust laws could hobble healthcare reform
A couple of weeks ago, President Obama and several major interest groups announced that they'd be able to cut $2 trillion off of the growth in healthcare spending over the next decade. That sounds... Read more...
FTC allows AZ merger to move ahead
The FTC has decided not to challenge a planned merger between two-hospital Sun Health and 19-hospital Banner Health, both based in Arizona. Phoenix-based Banner and Sun City-based Sun Health signed a... Read more...
