SATILLA HEALTH SERVICES, INC. v. BELL

Nos. A06A0368, A06A0369.

633 S.E.2d 575 (2006)

SATILLA HEALTH SERVICES, INC. v. BELL et al. Satilla Health Services, Inc. v. Pilcher et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

June 23, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry A. Dillard, Scott C. Crowley, Dillard, Bower & Crowley, Waycross, Roy E. Barnes, Marietta, for appellant.

John E. Bumgartner, Bradley J. Watkins, Whelchel, Brown, Readdick & Bumgartner, Brunswick, Kenneth E. Futch Jr., Blackshear, Michael J. Bowers, Balch & Bingham, T. Joshua R., Atlanta, for appellees.

Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, Thomas D. Watry, Alston & Bird, Jack S. Schroder, Jr., Atlanta, Brian W. Looby, amici curiae


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...

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