Balanced News: Commerce Commission rejects medical imaging complaint

The Commerce Commission has rejected a complaint that changes in who owns medical imaging scanning practices could markedly erode competition. “We do not consider that the arrangements are sufficiently widespread at this time to have the effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition,” the commission told the Institute of Independent Radiologists, which lodged the complaint. The institute said it welcomed the Commerce Commission saying it could revist the issue if the ownership model spread.