Competition record
Hackensack Meridian Health
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Hackensack Meridian Health is a New Jersey hospital system. A surgeon sued it and Mountainside Medical on 2 October 2026 over access to emergency call, and there has been no ruling.
Overview
The system runs hospitals and physician groups across New Jersey. An emergency-call panel is the list of specialists a hospital uses when a patient arrives at night or on a weekend needing that specialty.
On 2 October 2026 a surgeon sued Hackensack Meridian and Mountainside Medical over access to that call work. The complaint is new.
No court has ruled on who may join the panel. A filing about call access is not a finding that the hospitals closed it unlawfully.
Competition footprint
Call-panel access is how an independent surgeon gets emergency cases and the referrals that follow from being the doctor the hospital calls.
Mountainside Medical is a named co-defendant with the wider Hackensack Meridian system.
The 2 October 2026 complaint has not been tested on a motion or at trial.
Consumer & business angle
Patients in the emergency department get the surgeon the panel sends, and they do not choose the roster.
Other surgeons who already hold call slots are the incumbents a newcomer has to get past.
What to watch
- Whether the hospitals move to dismiss the 2 October 2026 complaint.
- What the surgeon says the call panel required.
Markets
hospital services · emergency specialty call · acute surgical services
Also known as: hackensack meridian, hmh