New York's attorney general challenges the affiliation of two hospitals, claiming that their operating agreement is an attempt to fix prices and allocate markets

Article Abstract:

The New York attorney general has filed a complaint against two New York hospitals affiliated through a joint operating agreement (JOA) claiming this JOA is an illegal price fixing and market allocation scheme among independent, competing hospitals. This case stresses the need for hospitals in JOAs to integrate their finances and operations. JOAs which have true financial and operational integration through common control of the hospitals can probably avoid challenge as price-fixing cartels, although they could still be challenged under merger principles.

Hospitals, Hospital administration

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A tiny cheese exchange churns up a giant ruckus; manipulation questions arise as study finds Kraft uses a pint-sized trading room to lower national dairy prices

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A joint investigation of the National Cheese Exchange by the state and University of Wisconsin suggests Kraft Foods used it to manipulate milk product prices nationwide. The obscure exchange had trades of 0.2% of total cheese volume from 1988 to 1993, but formulas based on its prices are widely used elsewhere. Congressional and state probes are now in motion, and a dairy farmer is seeking class status for a suit against Kraft. Criminal charges are unlikely to result.

Analysis, Marketing, Cheese, Commodity exchanges

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Intranet questions arise: if you build it, what do you put on it?

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Different approaches to what lawyers should put on their intranet are arising, with one possibility that intranets should reduce paper, which makes their content pretty much indiscriminate. Another is to make them a legal research tool, and another a Web-based work product retrieval system. Still another is to give each practice area of the firm its own intranet section.

Management, Intranets

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