ANTITRUST
E. Portland Imaging Ctr. v. Providence Health Sys.-Or., No. CV 05-465-KI (D.Or. Mar. 21, 2006)
The United States
District Court of the District of Oregon granted a health system's motion
for summary judgment in an antitrust case filed by a competing radiology center.
The radiology center alleged that the health system attempted to monopolize
the outpatient diagnostic imaging market by opening two outpatient imaging
centers and by terminating the radiology center's contract with the system's
health plans. While the district court found there was evidence of anticompetitive
conduct by the health system, it also found that the radiology center failed
to demonstrate there was a dangerous probability of the health system achieving
monopoly power, and granted summary judgment in favor of the health system.