Barnes C E
Physician Exec. 1990 Jul-Aug;16(4):36-8.
In an opinion issued on February 20, 1990, the Federal District Court for the Central District of California summarily dismissed the claim of Dr. George M. Austin that Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and five individual physicians conspired to suspend his hospital privileges in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. The decision was based on the court's determination that the actions of the hospital and defendant physicians were immune from federal antitrust liability under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986. The case is the first test of the Act in connection with a staff privileges claim under the antitrust laws and is the first affirmance of the immunity protections of the Act.
1990年2月20日，加利福尼亚中区联邦地区法院发布一项意见，即决驳回了乔治·M·奥斯汀医生的诉求，该诉求称圣巴巴拉 Cottage 医院及五名医生个人合谋吊销其医院特权，违反了《谢尔曼法》第一条。该判决基于法院的判定，即根据1986年《医疗保健质量改进法》，医院及被告医生的行为可免于承担联邦反垄断责任。此案是该法在依据反垄断法提出的员工特权诉求方面的首次检验，也是对该法豁免保护的首次确认。
