FTC Issues Another Favorable Clinical Integration Program Advisory Opinion

By on February 20, 2013

by Ashley M. Fischer

In a February 13, 2013, advisory opinion, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition stated that it has no present intention to recommend that the FTC challenge a clinical integration program proposed by Norman Physician Hospital Organization, a multi-specialty physician-hospital organization in Oklahoma.  The opinion is the fifth advisory opinion the FTC has issued concerning a clinically integrated managed care contracting network.  Four of the advisory opinions were favorable, and one was unfavorable to the respective requesting parties.  This White Paper summarizes the Norman Physician-Hospital Organization advisory opinion and its key takeaways, and compares the opinion to the FTC’s previous four advisory opinions on clinical integration programs.

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