2 Rival Hospitals Want To Join Forces. Will Patients Lose?
In Terre Haute, Ind., 2 competing health centers wish to combine, a relocation that fans state will conserve clients cash and assist individuals live longer.
Comparable medical facility combinations in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina have actually resulted in federal government reports recording lessened care.
In more than a lots states, certificates of public benefit (COPAs) allow offers like the one on the table in Indiana, although the Federal Trade Commission otherwise considers them unlawful since they lower competitors. As an outcome, the FTC has actually cautioned states to prevent COPAs and the mergers they produce.
In Terre Haute, state regulators will choose whether to enable Union Hospital to buy the surrounding county's just other severe care center, Terre H...