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Citing the Texas "anticompetitive action exception" to the peer review privilege, the Supreme Court of Texas (the "Court") ordered a hospital to...Read More »
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (the "Court") rejected a hospital's argument that the state's peer review...Read More »
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