Hospital antitrust

Hospital antitrust concerns the many precedents relating to antitrust challenges to hospital monopolization. Leading precedents include:

Am. Chiropractic v. Trigon Healthcare, 367 F.3d 212 (4th Cir. 2004)

American Needle v. NFL, 560 U.S. 183 (2010) (Sherman Act ban applies when a conspiracy “joins together independent centers of decision making”)

Austin v. McNamara, 979 F.2d 728 (9th Cir. 1992)

BCB Anesthesia Care v. Passavant Memorial Area Hosp. Ass’n, 36 F.3d 664 (7th Cir. 1994)

Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp., 467 U.S. 752 (1984)

Francis v. Giacomelli, 588 F.3d 186 (4th Cir. 2009)

Gabaldoni v. Washington County. Hospital Ass'n, 250 F.3d 255 (4th Cir. 2001)

Hein-Muniz v. Aiken Regional Med. Ctrs., 532 Fed. App’x 342 (4th Cir. 2013)

Imperial v. Suburban Hosp. Ass’n, 37 F.3d 1026 (4th Cir. 1994)

Mathews v. Lancaster Gen. Hosp., 87 F.3d 624 (3d Cir. 1996)

Monsanto Co. v. Spray-Rite Serv. Corp., 465 U.S. 752 (1984)

Moore v. Williamsburg Regional Hosp., 560 F.3d 166 (4th Cir. 2009)

Oksanen v. Page Memorial Hosp., 945 F.2d 696 (4th Cir.1991) (en banc)

Poliner v. Tex. Health Sys., 537 F.3d 368 (5th Cir. 2008)

Sugarbaker v. SSM Health Care, 190 F.3d 905 (8th Cir. 1999)

Torbett v. Wheeling Dollar Sav. & Tr. Co., 314 S.E.2d 166 (W. Va. 1983)

Tshibaka v. Sernulka, 673 Fed. App’x. 272 (4th Cir. 2016) (hospital “[i]mmunity applies unless—viewing the totality of the circumstances in an objectively reasonable manner—the aggrieved physician rebuts the presumption that the professional review action satisfied HCQIA.”)

Wahi v. Charleston Area Med. Ctr., 562 F.3d 599 (4th Cir. 2009)

Wieters v. Roper Hosp., Inc., 58 Fed. App’x 40 (4th Cir. 2003)

Procedure

Brooks v. City of Winston-Salem, 85 F.3d 178 (4th Cir. 1996)

Nemet Chevrolet v. Consumeraffairs.com, 591 F.3d 250 (4th Cir. 2009)