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New FTC Consent Order Against Health Care-Focused Private Equity Firm Has Antitrust Implications

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Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a final consent order with a private equity firm focused on health care and technology to resolve allegations of anticompetitive practices in two anesthesiology markets...more

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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

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Patients Suing Hospitals for Antitrust Violations – Do They Have Standing?

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A recently decided case out of Connecticut provides a useful examination of how antitrust standing issues may be analyzed in cases involving commercially-insured patients directly suing a health care system alleging economic...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

FTC and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Challenge Proposed Hospital Merger

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On February 27, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an action to block a proposed transaction between Thomas Jefferson University d/b/a Jefferson Health (Jefferson) and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network...more

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Med-Staff Newsletter - January 2020 | VOL 4

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With the New Year comes new medical staff leaders and a new set of growing pains. Contrary to what many of us believe, some simple steps can lessen the pain. ...more

McDermott Will & Emery

California Attorney General Announces Historic $575 Million Settlement of Antitrust Suit Against Sutter Health

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (AG Becerra) announced on Friday, December 20, 2019, the terms of a comprehensive settlement agreement reached with Sutter Health (Sutter), the largest hospital system in Northern...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

DOJ Reaffirms Role in Healthcare Antitrust Enforcement - Government Enforcement Update

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In a speech before the American Bar Association’s Antitrust in Healthcare conference, held last week in Virginia, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Barry Nigro offered the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) most recent statement...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

How an Amicus Brief Can Win an Appeal

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Economists are endemic to antitrust litigation. Their expertise is often necessary to explain why the conduct or merger at issue will have no impact (or a huge impact!) on competition in a market. ...more

Mintz

No Resuscitation of Hospital’s Exclusive Dealing Antitrust Suit against Competing Hospitals and Physicians

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The Third Circuit reminds, “[i]n antitrust suits, definitions matter.” Last week, in applying that maxim, the court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit filed by a hospital against a competing hospital and physician...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

U.S. Department of Justice Sues North Carolina Hospital System for Insisting on Anti-Steering Provisions in Insurance...

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On June 9, 2016, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (“DoJ”) filed a complaint against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, d/b/a Carolinas Health Care System (“CHS”) in the United...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Breaking: Third Circuit Dismisses Antitrust Suit Concerning Marketing of Lovenox

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Earlier today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the District of New Jersey trial court dismissing the antitrust claims lobbed against Sanofi-Aventis by its rival pharmaceutical company Eisai. The...more

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