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Navigating the New Normal: Top Employee Benefits Risks for Healthcare Employers in 2025

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As the healthcare industry grapples with the impact of the 2025 Comprehensive Reform Act, which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, offering benefits to its own employees continues to be both a tool for employee retention...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Indiana Enacts Legislation Affecting Health Care Transactions and Imposing Ownership Reporting Requirements

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On May 6, 2025, Indiana Governor Mike Braun signed Indiana HB 1666 into law. This new law grants Indiana’s attorney general authority to investigate market concentration of health care entities, modifies existing requirements...more

Ankura

Quarterly Healthcare Transactions Review: Unveiling the Latest Industry Mergers and Acquisitions

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Ankura is pleased to present an overview of healthcare services transactions announced or closed during Q4 2024 in the United States. Total transactions decreased by 10.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 after decreasing...more

Mintz

[Podcast] Health Law Diagnosed – Health Care Transaction Review Laws and the New Normal

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In the latest episode of Health Law Diagnosed, host Bridgette Keller discusses the evolving legislative and regulatory landscape impacting health care transactions, particularly for private equities and hedge funds. She is...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q1 2025

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The healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market began 2025 with a slower start than expected given the easing headwinds and building momentum at the end of last year, with the number of deals reported in Q1 lower than...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

DOH Issues Guidance on New York’s Material Health Care Transaction Law

Nearly two years ago, and as previously discussed in a Proskauer alert, New York enacted Public Health Law Article 45-A (the “Material Transactions Law”), which requires reporting of certain material health care transactions....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Unclaimed Property Laws and the Health Industry: Square Peg, Round Hole

Likely due to the tremendous number of healthcare mergers, acquisitions, and private equity deals that have been taking place, the industry has recently been the target of multistate unclaimed property audits. This increased...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Healthcare Consolidation and Private Equity: Public Input on Antitrust Healthcare Regulations

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (together the Agencies) launched a cross-government agency request for information...more

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Fast Five: Important Law and Policy Updates for US Health Care Transactions

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With the end of the first quarter of 2024, we highlight five developments, changes, or challenges that health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician practices, health insurers, and other health care providers,...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

New Disclosure and Notice Requirements for New York Physician Practice Transactions

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The 2023-2024 New York State budget has enacted significant new mandatory disclosure and notice laws for certain transactions involving physician practices and other health care organizations. This new law – Article 45-A of...more

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Hospital mergers and acquisitions aren’t great for patients’ care, study finds

Big hospitals keep getting bigger. But, contrary to what the suit-wearing MBAs may claim, the rising number of institutional mergers and acquisitions isn’t necessarily better for patients and their care....more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

DOJ Announces Roundtable Series on Competition and Deregulation

The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division recently announced plans to hold a series of public roundtable discussions to analyze the relationship between competition and regulation, and its implications for...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Aetna-Humana Merger Blocked

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The District of Columbia federal court recently ruled that a proposed $37 billion merger between health insurance giants Aetna and Humana cannot proceed, granting the US Department of Justice’s bid to block the combination on...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

The AHA’s Letter to Santa Claus

The American Hospital Association, after having been “nice” all year, penned its letter to Santa Claus with its wish list for Christmas. Its four page letter (actually addressed to President-Elect Donald Trump at 1717...more

King & Spalding

Trial Challenging Proposed Anthem, Cigna Merger Is Underway

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On November 21, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia heard opening arguments in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the proposed merger between Anthem, Inc. and Cigna Corporation. This is...more

Polsinelli

Mega-Mergers Highlight Risk to Health Care Providers

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Consolidation in health insurance markets can injure hospitals and doctors by creating buyer-side market power that can force providers to accept below-market prices, limit patients’ access to care, and reduce innovation in...more

McDermott Will & Emery

FTC and DOJ Host Workshop Examining Health Care Competition - Updated 2015

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) held a public workshop on February 24–25, 2015, to examine recent trends and developments in health care provider...more

Dickinson Wright

Insurance Antitrust Legal News - March 2014 • Volume 3, Number 2

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In This Issue: - FTC COMMISSIONER CRITICIZES PROPOSED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PERMIT HEALTH PROVIDERS TO NEGOTIATE JOINTLY WITH HEALTH INSURERS: In a February 26 speech before the Connecticut Bar Association,...more

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