FTC Staff Advises Maryland Physician-Hospital Organization That it Will Not Recommend Antitrust Challenge to Proposal to Provide Member Physicians Services Through Clinical Integration Program

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition has advised TriState Health Partners, Inc. (TriState), a physician-hospital organization based in Hagerstown, Maryland, that staff has no present intention to recommend that the Commission challenge the organization’s proposed clinical integration program, which would include joint contracting by its members with health plans and self-insured employers. The staff […]

Federal Trade Commission to Host Workshop on Health Care Clinical Integration

The Federal Trade Commission will host a one-day public workshop on May 29, 2008, to discuss collaborations between health care providers to improve the provision of health care services and reduce costs. The workshop, titled “Clinical Integration in Health Care: A Check-Up,” will feature health care providers, government officials, health insurers and other payers, employers, […]

FTC Staff Advises Rochester Physician Organization That It Will Not Recommend Antitrust Challenge to Proposal to Provide Member Physicians’ Services Through “Clinical Integration” Program

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission have advised the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association, Inc. (GRIPA), a multi-specialty physician practice association that includes competing primary care and specialist physicians that practice in the three-county greater Rochester, New York, area, that it has no present intention to recommend a challenge to the organization’s proposed operation as […]

FTC Staff Advises Rochester Physician Organization That It Will Not Recommend Antitrust Challenge to Proposal to Provide Member Physicians’ Services Through “Clinical Integration” Program

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission have advised the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association, Inc. (GRIPA), a multi-specialty physician practice association that includes competing primary care and specialist physicians that practice in the three-county greater Rochester, New York, area, that it has no present intention to recommend a challenge to the organization’s proposed operation as […]

FTC Staff Advises Rochester Physician Organization That It Will Not Recommend Antitrust Challenge to Proposal to Provide Member Physicians’ Services Through “Clinical Integration” Program

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission have advised the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association, Inc. (GRIPA), a multi-specialty physician practice association that includes competing primary care and specialist physicians that practice in the three-county greater Rochester, New York, area, that it has no present intention to recommend a challenge to the organization’s proposed operation as […]