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Antitrust Concerns with Network Rental Agreements

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How a common practice for healthcare payers can turn from negotiation tactic to anticompetitive collusion - What is a network rental agreement? Network rental agreements, also known as “network leasing” or “network...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Long Delayed CVS/Aetna Merger Finally Gains Court Approval

Concluding one of the longest merger reviews in history, on September 4, Judge Richard Leon, District Judge for the District of Columbia, issued his final ruling in United States v. CVS Health, approving the proposed...more

Orrick - Antitrust Watch

Toward Uncharted Waters – The CVS-Aetna Merger

On June 4 – 5, 2019, Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held an extraordinary and unprecedented evidentiary hearing to decide whether to enter the proposed Final Judgment in U.S. v....more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Georgia Leads the Way with Enactment of Pharmacy Anti-Steering Law

With an overwhelming amount of bi-partisan support, on May 7, 2019, Georgia enacted the Pharmacy Anti-Steering and Transparency Act, O.C.G.A. §26-4-119 (the GA Act). The GA Act goes into effect as of January 1, 2020....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

What Say You, New York? Now that Federal Antitrust Regulators Have Approved CVS’s Proposed Acquisition of Aetna, Attention Turns...

During a public hearing in New York City on Thursday, October 18, 2018, New York State regulators, including Superintendent Maria Vullo of the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”), threatened to block CVS...more

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