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FTC Announces Annual Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Filing Thresholds Increase for 2024

[02/08/24]

FTC and DOJ Release Finalized Merger Guidelines

[12/27/23]

FTC Issues Proposed Rule Making Substantial Changes to the Premerger HSR Process

[07/20/23]

FTC and DOJ Release Significant Proposed Updates to the Merger Guidelines

[07/20/23]

DOJ Withdraws Decades Old Antitrust Guidance as Scrutiny of Health Care Industry Continues

[02/14/23]

FTC Announces Annual Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Filing Thresholds Increase for 2023

[01/30/23]

Significant Changes to Current Filing Fees Required by Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Included in Omnibus Funding Bill

[01/12/23]

FTC Seeks to Make Non-Compete Clauses for Workers Illegal

[01/06/23]

Antitrust Enforcers Set Sights on Private Equity Transactions in Health Care

[08/03/22]

FTC Announces Annual Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Filing Thresholds Increase for 2022

[02/01/22]

FTC Announces Changes to Second Request Process, Extending Scope and Timing of Merger Review

[10/08/21]

More Uncertainty in the FTC’s Transaction Review Process: FTC Warns Parties of Continuing Investigations Post Expiration of HSR Waiting Period Amid “Tidal Wave” of Filings

[08/20/21]

Antitrust Goes Mainstream – President Biden Issues Executive Order to Promote Competition

[07/28/21]

DOJ, FTC Issue Vertical Merger Guidelines

[07/10/20]

DOJ Announces $100 Million Criminal Antitrust Penalty for Florida Oncology Provider

[05/13/20]

FTC, DOJ Worried About Collusion in Labor Markets During COVID-19 Pandemic

[04/16/20]

FTC, DOJ Issue Joint Antitrust Statement Regarding COVID-19

[03/26/20]

FTC, DOJ Announce COVID-19 Antitrust Guidance for Merger & Acquisition Review

[03/20/20]

FTC Announces Annual Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Filing Thresholds Increase for 2020

[02/03/20]

FTC, DOJ Release Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines

[01/21/20]

New DOJ Guidance for Antitrust Compliance Programs: Why Health Care Entities Need Antitrust Focus

[09/20/19]

Changes to Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives Impact Mergers and Partnerships Between Catholic and Non-Catholic Entities

[08/02/18]

Employers Could Have Egg on Their Faces with ‘No-Poaching’ Agreements

[04/18/18]

The Academic Health Center: Delivery System Design in the Changing Health Care Ecosystem - Sizing the Clinical Enterprise to Support the Academic Mission

U.S. District Court Blocks Second Insurance Mega-Merger; Court Not Impressed with Anthem’s Plan to “Drop the Hammer” on Providers

[03/23/17]

U.S. District Court Blocks $37 Billion Aetna/Humana Merger; Decision Looming in Anthem/Cigna

[01/27/17]

FTC and DOJ Release Joint Antitrust Guidance for HR Professionals, Warn of Criminal Enforcement for “No-Poaching” and Wage-Fixing Agreements

[10/28/16]

Third Party Discovery Begins in Expedited Antitrust Challenge to Health Insurance Mega-Mergers

[08/19/16]

Will Consecutive FTC Losses Change the Antitrust Landscape for Hospital Mergers?

[07/13/16]

I Say Single Entity, You Say Antitrust Violation: Sixth Circuit Finds JOA Fails Antitrust Test

[06/03/16]

Timing Strategies in Responding to Agency Investigations of Hospital and Physician Mergers, AHLA Antitrust in Health Care Conference.

Antitrust Risk Mitigation Strategies in Hospital and Physician Mergers, AHLA Health Care Transactions Conference.

FTC Hospital Merger Win Streak Ends: PA Judge Rules in Favor of Hospitals, but FTC Fights On

[05/12/16]

FTC Announces Annual Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Filing Thresholds Increase for 2016

[01/29/16]

Common Themes Emerge as FTC Challenges Three Hospital Mergers in Two-Month Period

[01/20/16]

FTC Challenges West Virginia Hospital Acquisition Despite Attorney General Approval

[12/02/15]

Antitrust Enforcers Tally Two More Wins in Provider Consolidation Battle

[02/17/15]

Health Care Antitrust Developments, Book Chapter, Health Law and Compliance Update, 2014, 2015, 2016 (Wolters/Kluwer Publishers)

Top Ten Practical Antitrust Compliance Tips for Health Care Providers (and Other Entities); RADLAW Bulletin, American College of Radiology.

Hospital Acquisition of Physician Groups; Hospitals and Health Systems Law Institute, American Health Law Association.

Hold Separate Agreements and Remedies in Physician Mergers; Antitrust in Healthcare Conference, American Bar Association and American Health Law Association.

Should Responding to Healthcare Reform Be a Defense in Hospital and Physician Mergers; 60th Antitrust Spring Meeting, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law.

Antitrust Developments, Agency Enforcement and Health Care Reform; Health Law National Conference.

Exclusionary Practices in Healthcare: Foreclosure or Competition-Enhancing?; Antitrust in Healthcare, American Health Law Association and American Bar Association, Antitrust and Health Law Sections.