Ballad Health is a chain of hospitals headquartered in Johnson City, Tennessee. It includes facilities in Tennessee, and Virginia. The healthcare system's website states that its service area includes 29 counties, some of which are in Kentucky and North Carolina. It was created in 2018, when Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health Systems agreed to merge together. Due to the merger, it became the sole hospital organization in sections of the Appalachia region. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had reservations about the merger as portions of Appalachia would only have a single healthcare provider. However the company merged without FTC approval because the Tennessee Attorney General and the Tennessee Department of Health gave clearance for the hospital systems to merge under a Tennessee state law passed in 2015 that allowed hospital merges to occur if the systems could get a "certificate of public advantage" or COPA clearance, arguing that a merged hospital system could work if the area people had greater advantages under a merge despite fewer competing hospital options. Ballad also got a COPA in Virginia, which required it to keep its existing Virginia hospitals open. More information...
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