Phoebe Putney Health System news and information

A controversial hospital quality grading system created by the employer-backed Leapfrog Group was again criticized by a portion of the industry after Leapfrog released its second round of grades last week, this time with the names of hospitals receiving a D or an F.
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Giving a local government the power to buy a hospital is not the same thing as granting it the authority to establish a regional monopoly on acute care, lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last week as they tried to undo a $200 million hospital acquisition...
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Hospitals showed improvement in safety grades produced by the Leapfrog Group, but officials for the employer-backed organization say the uptick in grades should be better.
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The Supreme Court has long allowed state governments to disregard federal antitrust law and establish monopolies to meet public goals. But a lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission told the justices Monday that the same power does not flow to public hospital authorities unless the legislature...
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The Supreme Court heard arguments in the federal government's claim that two private corporations used a public hospital authority to complete a deal that left one company as the owner of the only two hospitals in Albany, Ga. The Federal Trade Commission says the deal violates federal antitrust law.
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The Federal Trade Commission is challenging Reading (Pa.) Health System's proposed acquisition of the Surgical Institute of Reading.
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The Federal Trade Commission is challenging Reading (Pa.) Health System's proposed acquisition of the Surgical Institute of Reading.
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The Federal Trade Commission is trying to make it more difficult for public hospitals to buy up their competitors, and a wide range of state governments and other observers have taken a keen interest as the matter heads to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has set hearing dates for three cases that will examine acquisitions by public hospital authorities, Medicare payment appeals and settlements in wage-and-hour lawsuits.
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The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn rulings it says allowed the public owner of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital to create a probable six-county hospital monopoly.
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