Satilla Health Services, Inc. v. Bell

Bernes, Judge.

These companion appeals involve a dispute between a hospital and several physicians who held clinical privileges and practiced cardiology there. We must resolve two main issues. The first is whether a hospital that has entered into an exclusive provider contract with a physicians group can lawfully exclude all other physicians not employed by or under contract with that group from having access to the hospital’s facilities and resources, irrespective of whether the hospital reserved the right to do so in its bylaws or in a contract with the individual physicians who are denied…