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Federal and California’s Shared Interest in Promoting Open Competition: Isn’t it Ironic?

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This article provides a brief history of California’s pro-competition law and describes the stalled federal initiative to extend a similar noncompete ban nationally, notwithstanding the overlapping policy interests expressed...more

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California’s Office of Health Care Affordability – First Ever Cost and Market Impact Review and Potential Expansion of Office’s...

Since April 2024, the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) has received twenty-six Material Change Transaction Notices (Notices) as part of its...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

California’s Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) Initiates First Cost and Market Impact Review (“CMIR”)

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On June 6, 2025, the California Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) issued its first determination to conduct a Cost and Market Impact Review (“CMIR”) under its health care oversight law. This CMIR will involve...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

California-Based Healthcare Transaction Subjected to OHCA's First Cost and Market Review

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On June 23, 2025, California’s Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) issued a determination that a transaction submitted by Covenant Care California, LLC and its subsidiaries under the Material Change Transaction Notice...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

California's Ban on Reverse Payment Settlements Partially Survives After a Five-Year Battle

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As state legislatures introduce legislation expanding the reach of their antitrust laws and state attorneys general ramp up their use of antitrust investigations and litigation, the legal landscape continues to become more...more

Cozen O'Connor

California’s Bill Increasing Regulations on Private Equity Health Deals

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California is looking to take the lead on regulating private equity deals in the health care space by introducing bill AB 3129, which requires private equity groups or hedge funds to receive the state attorney general’s...more

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California Healthcare Transactions to Undergo Additional Advance Regulatory Scrutiny as New Office of Health Care Affordability...

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Certain healthcare transactions closing on or after April 1, 2024 are subject to an advance notice regulatory review and analysis by a newly created Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) within the California...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Denies Sherman Act Challenge To No-Poach Provision

In an important decision on August 19, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Aya Healthcare Services, Inc. v. AMN Healthcare, Inc. affirmed the grant of summary judgment in favor of AMN, finding that the...more

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