For-profit hospital chains HCA Healthcare and Steward Well being Care have terminated their proposed hospital gross sales, delivering one other win for the Federal Commerce Fee’s well being care antitrust regulators.
Earlier this month, the FTC had sued to dam the merger and one other deal between two New Jersey hospital methods. That merger was also scrapped this week — suggesting related mergers between hospitals that sit in shut proximity to one another gained’t get previous federal trustbusters.
