Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a 2005 Federal Trade Commission decision that North Texas Specialty Physicians, an association of independent competing physicians and physician groups located in the Fort Worth, Texas area, engaged in horizontal price-fixing that was not related to any procompetitive efficiencies.
Background The North Texas Specialty Physicians IPA (NTSP) was an organization of independent physicians and physician groups formed, managed and operated by physicians.
DALLAS -- Healthvision announced today that Sandlot, a wholly owned subsidiary of North Texas Specialty Physicians located in Fort Worth, Texas, is now officially live with their Health Information Exchange (HIE) and integrated Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform currently serving hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare providers in the Tarrant County area.
Over 600 NTSP physicians will be able to access and share patient health information in real time FORT WORTH, Texas -- North Texas Specialty Physicians (NTSP), a multi-specialty Independent Physician Association (IPA) serving nearly 600 doctors, announced today that in early 2007 it will begin implementing an electronic medical record system using an integrated data exchange model.
In Re North Texas Specialty Physicians In September of 2003, the FTC issued an administrative complaint against North Texas Specialty Physicians (NTSP), a non-for-profit Independent Physician Association, alleging that the group violated federal law by gathering information from its physician members and using the information to bolster their position with payors.
During his tenure at the FTC, Hoffman led numerous merger and nonmerger investigations and cases, including the investigation into cruise line mergers, numerous energy mergers, GE/Vivendi, the In re North Texas Specialty Physicians and In re South Carolina Board of Dentistry litigation matters, and the appeals in In re Rambus, Inc.
