October 15, 2015

An orthopedic practice in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Keystone Orthopaedic Specialists, LLC, has agreed to settle FTC charges that a merger created through a combination of six independent orthopedic practices in 2011 was anticompetitive. The FTC alleged that the merger combined 19 of the 25 orthopedists in Berks County into a single practice, giving Keystone a 76 percent share of the market for orthopedic physician services and substantially reducing competition for such services in Berks County. FTC

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