AG Settles with Docs Refusing to Go On-Call as Bargaining Chip for Payment

Four years after state and federal officials charged the Idaho Orthopaedic Society with engaging in an anticompetitive conspiracy for refusing to treat workers' compensation patients, the state's attorney general has settled a case with four physicians about a similar action. The four doctors – Robert Coray, Brian Christensen, Jay McMaster and Barry Peterson – refused to provide on-call service for the emergency room of Madison Memorial Hospital where they work, according to a Monday press release. Each had signed a contract with the hospital agreeing to provide on-ca...