FTC: 'Potential harm to patients' if Ballad COPA regulations repealed

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJHL) — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has "warned of the potential anticompetitive consequences to patients” if Tennessee's legislature removes the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) regulatory oversight of Ballad Health's inpatient hospital monopoly. Wednesday’s six-page letter, signed by the FTC’s directors of policy planning, economics and competition, came in response to a [...]