September 03, 2014
St. Luke's Health System Ltd. told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that its acquisition of a nearby physician practice group would improve patient care through the kind of integration promoted by the Affordable Care Act, despite a lower court ruling that the deal is anti-competitive.
August 21, 2014
The attorneys general of California, Pennsylvania and more than a dozen other states urged the Ninth Circuit Wednesday to uphold the Federal Trade Commission's successful challenge to St. Luke's Health System Ltd.'s acquisition of a major nearby physician practice group.
August 14, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission and the Idaho attorney general on Wednesday asked the Ninth Circuit to uphold a ruling banning St. Luke's Health System Ltd. from acquiring rival Saltzer Medical Group PA, saying the lower court correctly held that the deal would have anti-competitive effects.
July 28, 2014
The Ninth Circuit on Friday agreed to let St. Luke's Health System Ltd. hold on to Saltzer Medical Group PA while it appeals a ruling ordering it to divest the physician practice group because the acquisition violated antitrust law.
July 17, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused St. Luke's Health System Ltd. of trying to sneak new, misleading arguments about Saltzer Medical Group PA's financial troubles in on appeal as it tries to stave off the divestiture of the physician practice group.
July 15, 2014
St. Luke's Health System Ltd. urged the Ninth Circuit on Monday to reject arguments from two Idaho hospitals against a stay of a forced sale of a nearby physician practice group, saying it had shown a "substantial case" for relief on appeal in an ongoing antitrust case.
June 25, 2014
St. Luke's Health System Ltd. urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to put on hold its forced sale of a nearby physician practice group it had acquired while it appeals a ruling that ordered the divestiture because the transaction was found to violate antitrust law.
June 23, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission on Friday opposed St. Luke's Health System Ltd.'s latest bid to hold onto a local physician practice group while it appeals the watchdog's antitrust challenge to the Ninth Circuit, accusing the Idaho hospital of trying to delay the sale indefinitely.
June 19, 2014
An Idaho federal judge refused Wednesday to let St. Luke's Health System Ltd. keep the nearby physician practice group it acquired while it appeals the court's ruling that the transaction violated antitrust law.