Policing hospital mergers has become a top enforcement priority among federal antitrust enforcers. In 2020 alone, the FTC sued to block three hospital transactions (Jefferson/Einstein, Methodist Le Bonheur/Tenet and...more
In reviewing mergers of healthcare providers, government antitrust enforcers have historically focused on horizontal mergers between competing providers—in particular, those that result in high market shares in a specific...more
3/18/2015
/ Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Hospitals ,
Physicians ,
Popular ,
St. Luke's
Healthcare providers frequently consolidate to cut costs and improve patient care. These benefits can result from sharing administrative costs such as billing and electronic recordkeeping, eliminating excess capacity, better...more
In This Issue:
- What Providers Should Know
- Background
- Ruling
- Excerpt from What Providers Should Know:
A federal judge recently ordered a hospital system to unwind its year-old acquisition...more
In This Issue:
- Norman PHO
- Key Conclusions
- Implications for Established and Newly Forming Networks
- Excerpt from Norman PHO:
The Norman PHO is comprised of a single hospital system and...more
The U.S. Supreme Court on February 19th scaled back the "state action immunity" doctrine, siding with the Federal Trade Commission on an issue that had divided the lower courts and holding that a county Hospital Authority's...more
2/27/2013
/ Acquisitions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System ,
Government Entities ,
Governmental Immunity ,
Governmental Liability ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Hospitals ,
Monopolization ,
SCOTUS ,
State Action Doctrine