Another provider files antitrust suit.(Gateway Medical Resource Alliance files antitrust suit against Sagamore Health Network)(Brief Article)

Modern Healthcare, December, 2001 by Taylor, Mark

An Indianapolis specialty-care provider network has filed an antitrust lawsuit against central Indiana's largest PPO, alleging exclusionary practices and anticompetitive behavior.

Gateway Contracting Services, which does business as Gateway Medical Resource Alliance, filed the antitrust suit in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis last month against 700,000-member Sagamore Health Network, a PPO owned by several Roman Catholic hospitals in Indiana and headquartered in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel. Gateway also named as a defendant one of Sagamore's owners, 402-bed St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers in Beech Grove, just outside Indianapolis. St. Francis is owned by the Mishawaka, Ind.-based Sisters of St. Francis Health Services.

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