The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently submitted comments in opposition to a renewed application for a certificate of public advantage (COPA) that would, if granted, allow two hospitals in Indiana to merge despite...more
As many as 19 states maintain the ability to exercise local control over hospital competition by offering industry participants wishing to merge a certificate of public advantage (COPA)....more
After nearly two years of combined efforts from the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the agencies jointly issued much-anticipated merger guidelines identifying the procedures...more
From wholesale revisions of the merger guidelines to significant amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification forms, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have proposed...more
Antitrust concerns about hospital mergers have historically focused on mergers of hospitals that compete for patients in the same local market....more