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0402006 Informal Interpretation
Caremark Rx, Inc./AdvancePCS, In the Matter of
20030957: Caremark Rx, Inc.; AdvancePCS
0402004 Informal Interpretation
0402001 Informal Interpretation
0402002 Informal Interpretation
Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Frye Regional Medical Center, Inc.
A consent order prohibits Frye Regional Medical Center, Inc., an acute care hospital in Hickory, North Carolina, and its parent company Tenet Healthcare Corporation from entering into any agreement to negotiate fees on behalf of any physician practicing in four North Carolina counties and from refusing to deal with insurance companies and other payers. Also refer to related administrative complaint issued to Piedmont Health Alliance. This settlement is the first case in which the Commission has named a hospital as a participant in an alleged physician price-fixing conspiracy.