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One Doctor group litigation The lawsuit against Envision Healthcare will test California's restrictions on corporate medical practice bans.

The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group says Envision's contract with a hospital in Placentia, California violates the state's ban on the corporate practice of medicine.

Provided by Dow Jones By Anna Wilde Mathews The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said it dropped a rule that limited competition among its member insurers, moving to implement a key aspect of an antitrust settlement the companies reached last year with customers. The settlement hasn't won final approval from the federal judge presiding over the litigation, so it isn't being fully implemented. But last Tuesday the group of insurers formally lifted a cap on the share of the members' revenue that could come from business not under a Blue Cross Blue Shield brand, ...

Share it The past year has been ripe with antitrust activity in the health sector, with ripple effects likely to spill into the near future and beyond. The Federal Trade Commission is poised to get even more aggressive in enforcement against anticompetitive deals in the years to come, legal experts told Healthcare Dive, while state legislatures are eyeing ways to increase scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions in their own backyards. The FTC said last year it was expanding a program that helps it police future and already-consummated deals. And just last year the agency made its first challenge...