AAP News Vol. 13 No. 1 January 1997, p. 25
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Antitrust insert revised

Melinda Reid Hatton

Since publication of the 1994 AAP News insert titled "Anti-Trust Implications of Physician Responses to Managed Care," the following has occurred, which brings the insert information up to date.

Last March, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("Antitrust Division") declined to approve a pediatric network in southern New Jersey. In a business review letter to Children's Healthcare P.A., the Antitrust Division concluded that a network consisting of 65-70 pediatricians was likely to have anticompetitive effects because it would include approximately 50 to 75 percent of the primary care pediatricians in several important local markets in southern New Jersey. In reaching its decision, the Antitrust Division answered several important questions about how it would evaluate pediatric networks for potential anticompetitive effects.