Opinion ID: 2778249
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Heading: The Health Care Market in Nampa, Idaho

Text: Nampa, the second-largest city in Idaho, is some twenty miles west of Boise and has a population of approximately 85,000. Before the merger at issue, St. Luke’s Health Systems, Ltd. (“St. Luke’s”), an Idaho-based, not-for-profit health care system, operated an emergency clinic in the city. Saltzer Medical Group, P.A. (“Saltzer”), the largest independent multi-specialty physician group in Idaho, had thirty-four physicians practicing at its offices in Nampa. The only hospital in Nampa was operated by Saint Alphonsus 8 ST. ALPHONSUS MED. CTR. V. ST. LUKE’S HEALTH SYS. Health System, Inc. (“Saint Alphonsus”), a part of the multistate Trinity Health system. Saint Alphonsus and Treasure Valley Hospital Limited Partnership (“TVH”) jointly operated an outpatient surgery center.1 The largest adult primary care physician (“PCP”) provider in the Nampa market was Saltzer, which had sixteen PCPs.2 St. Luke’s had eight PCPs and Saint Alphonsus nine. Several other PCPs had solo or small practices.