7. ANTI TRUST CASE (10 POINTS)

INOVA HEALTH SYSTEMS, currently owns and operates five hospitals in Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia. They are in discussions about acquiring Virginia Hospital in Arlington, Virginia. The CEO comes to our class and asks, based upon our research and understanding of the relevant geographic market theory, the rulings in the readings on antitrust re the FTC and Justice Department and the ruling in the Jefferson Parish case, would we recommend that INOVA should or should not attempt to acquire Virginia Hospital? Please respond and give the appropriate legal reasons for your response.

USE THE ANTI TRUST FILE AND THE JEFFERSON PARISH FILE PLEASE

8. THE HMO (10 P0INTS)

Several physician’s groups, a clinical laboratory, an imaging practice, a medical billing service, two hospitals and a physical therapy center come to you and indicate they would like to start an HMO(HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION). What 10 legal issues should they be aware of and must deal with?

List them with a short definition: FOR EXAMPLE;

NEGLIGENCE, they should be aware of the legal concern of the duty of care each practitioner would owe the patients of the HMO they treat to prevent injury as a negligence act could result in significant damages awarded against the HMO.

Now, you can court this one and only have 9 more to do. USE THE LEGAL ISSUE POWER POINT FILE TO FIND 9 MORE LEGAL CONCERNS SUCH AS SCOPE OF PRACTICE (FOR THIS Q U NEED TO FIND OUTSIDE REFERENCES AS WELL TO DEFINE THE LEGAL ISSUES )