No Antitrust Relief for Surgeon Rejected by Utah Hospital

A physician can’t proceed on claims that a health system allegedly used its privileging process to drive him out of practicing general surgery in violation of federal antitrust law, because he didn’t show the community was harmed by the loss of his services, a federal court in Utah said.

Legrand Belnap didn’t demonstrate an “antitrust injury” flowing from Steward Health Care System LLC’s alleged attempt to get rid of him as a competitor, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah said Monday. That is, he didn’t prove the system caused the type of harm the antitrust laws were ...