Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | display OCR: DOJ Issues Business Review Letter of Cleveland Hospitals Page 85 DC, 1-7/US Newswire: The Department of Justice announced it does not intend to challenge under the antitrust laws a proposal by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine & University Hospitals of Cleveland to use a single agent to negotiate contract terms & fees with third-party payers on behalf of the 19 separate physician practice groups that provide medical care @ UHC. The position was set forth in a business review letter from Gidley, acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division, to Gregory G. Binford, counsel for UHC, a teaching hospital affiliated with Case Western. Under the proposal, UHC would designate a single agent to negotiate with third-party payers on behalf of all the physicians who are organized into different practice groups according to medical specialties. Each practice group would provide the agent with a list of medical procedures & related ranges of prices for negotiating fees for each procedure. Third-party payers would be advised that they would be free to conduct negotiations directly with any group. Each practice group, similarly, would be free to conduct negotiations directly with a third- party payer. If negotiations proceeded through the agent, each practice group would be free to accept or reject the agent-negotiated contract. If any group rejected the negotiated contract, that practice group could renegotiate or decide not to contract.
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