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Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

Navigating New Jersey’s Medical Spa Regulatory Landscape: Key Compliance and Risk Management Considerations

The medical spa industry is thriving, but with growth comes complexity, particularly in New Jersey where healthcare and professional licensing rules intersect with business and real-estate regulations. For physicians, nurses,...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Cardiology Monopolization Case Confirms Antitrust Laws Protect Competition, Not Competitors

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Confirming the bedrock principle that the antitrust laws are designed to protect competition and not individual competitors, a federal court put an end to a legal turf war over the cardiology market in Laredo, TX on January...more

Stevens & Lee

Higher Prices, Reduced Access, Lower Quality Care: HHS, FTC, DOJ Report Harshly Criticizes Provider Consolidation and Private...

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In March 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (collectively, Agencies) issued a request for information (RFI) seeking public comment...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Key Takeaways From the 2024 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

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Ballard Spahr attorneys from the firm’s Life Sciences and Health Care Industry Teams were on the ground for the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (JPM24) from January 7-10. While still less crowded than...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Top Ten Legal Considerations for Use and/or Development of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the top ten legal issues that health care providers and health care companies should consider when using and/or developing artificial intelligence (AI). In particular,...more

Jones Day

Antitrust Alert: Eighth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Physician Group Acquisition

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In a decision that extends the FTC's winning streak in the courts of appeals in healthcare provider merger cases, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the Federal Trade Commission's ("FTC") bid to enjoin Sanford Health's acquisition...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Top Five Issues Related to Physician-Hospital ASC Joint Ventures

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The past several years have seen resurging interest in ambulatory surgery center (ASC) transactions. As previously covered in Health Care Law Today, ASCs have made a comeback with involvement of multi-specialty groups. This...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Two New Court Decisions Bookend Antitrust Risks for Integrated Hospitals

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A Florida federal court recently denied summary judgment to an integrated hospital system hoping to exit a multicount antitrust and unfair trade lawsuit. Four days later, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld summary...more

BakerHostetler

“Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More”* — Doctors, Vets, and Lawyers in the Antitrust Crosshairs

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Supreme Court Decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission Prompts Legal Challenges to State Professional Boards - Earlier this month a Texas federal district court judge granted a...more

K&L Gates LLP

Federal Court Enjoins Texas Medical Board from Enforcing More Stringent Telemedicine Rules

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On April 10, 2015, the Texas Medical Board (the “Board”) voted to adopt stricter regulations governing the practice of telemedicine, which were scheduled to go into effect June 3, 2015 (the “Revised Regulations”). The Board...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Economic Credentialing—An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Overview - The term economic credentialing is an old phrase that carries different meanings for different people, especially physicians. Simply stated, it is typically defined as any medical staff credentialing...more

Polsinelli

Can Mergers Between Healthcare Providers in Different Markets Raise Antitrust Concerns? "Yes," Say Top Enforcers at FTC and DOJ

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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

In Highly-Anticipated Decision, Ninth Circuit Affirms That Hospital-Physician Group Merger in St. Luke’s Violated Section 7 And...

On February 10, 2015, the Ninth Circuit issued its highly-anticipated decision at the intersection of health care and antitrust, affirming the lower court’s finding that a hospital-physician group merger completed nearly...more

BakerHostetler

“Oh help me, please doctor, I’m damaged”*—What does the Future Hold for Hospital-Physician Acquisitions?

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With the ink still drying on the Ninth Circuit’s opinion affirming the Idaho federal district court’s order requiring St. Luke’s Health System to unwind its acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group—a for-profit, physician-owned,...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

FTC Successful Challenge to Hospital Acquisition of Physician Group

In March 2013, the Federal Trade Commission, together with the Idaho Attorney General, filed a complaint seeking to block St. Luke’s Health System’s planned acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group P.A., a multi-specialty...more

Burr & Forman

Probationary Medicaid RCOs – How Do Physicians Respond Without Subjecting Themselves to Potential Criminal And Civil Liability?

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There are now eleven organizations across the State of Alabama that have been granted probationary certification as Medicaid Regional Care Organizations or “RCO”s. Physicians have begun receiving notices from some of these...more

Nexsen Pruet, PLLC

Ninth Circuit Reviews Anticompetitive Effects of Physician Acquisition in Idaho: Health Care Antitrust Cases to Watch in 2015

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Federal and state courts are expected to rule on several nationally watched antitrust health care cases during the first half of 2015. As we enter into the first week of the New Year, Nexsen Pruet associate Rachel...more

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