Brown University Health will take on 40,000 new patients and hire 27 new primary care providers over the next four years under an agreement with the attorney general's office and the leaders of the health system, Attorney General Peter Neronha announced at a press conference on Tuesday. The agreement stems from an antitrust investigation, initiated in the fall of 2024, into the proposed merger of Brown Health Medical Group and Brown Physicians Inc., an independent multi-specialty practice group with hundreds of doctors who are on staff at the health system. After a review, Neronha came to an agreement with Brown Health to suspend the investigation into the merger with the stipulation that the health system would expand access to primary care in Rhode Island.
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