To make the antitrust laws inapplicable to the negotiations between a coalition of health-care professionals and a health-care service plan regarding the wages, rates of pay, hours of work, and other terms and conditions of a contract between a member of such health-care professionals coalition and a health-care service plan, and to their carrying out such terms and conditions.
Health-Care Professionals Coalition Act of 1996 - Makes the antitrust laws inapplicable to: (1) negotiations between a coalition of health-care professionals and a health-care service plan regarding the wages, rates of pay, hours of work, and other terms and conditions of a contract that requires members of the coalition to provide health-care services to beneficiaries of the plan; and (2) the coalition in carrying out such terms and conditions.
Limits such exemption to a line of service: (1) of health-care professionals and health-care professionals groups who are members of such a coalition; and (2) with respect to which there is in the relevant market a presumption of market power held by health-care service plans with which the coalition negotiates such terms and conditions.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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