Hall Render helps health care organizations navigate the growing enforcement focus on antitrust in the health care industry. Our Antitrust Litigation team represents hospitals, health systems, physician groups, payors and other providers in investigations, enforcement actions and disputes involving competition laws that directly affect health care strategy, reimbursement and patient access. What We Do Defend...Read More
Hall Render helps health care organizations navigate the growing enforcement focus on antitrust in the health care industry. Our Antitrust Litigation team represents hospitals, health systems, physician groups, payors and other providers in investigations, enforcement actions and disputes involving competition laws that directly affect health care strategy, reimbursement and patient access.
What We Do
Defend antitrust litigation. We represent clients in federal and state court cases involving monopolization, exclusive dealing, payor contracting disputes, standard setting and competitor challenges.
Respond to DOJ, FTC and state investigations. Our team manages subpoenas, civil investigative demands and Second Requests, coordinates large-scale e-discovery and works with economists and consultants.
Support mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. We assess antitrust risk for transactions, prepare HSR filings and engage with enforcement agencies to secure clearance.
Advise on managed care and network strategies. Our attorneys counsel on provider networks, clinically integrated networks, ACOs, anti-steering and anti-tiering provisions, “all or nothing” arrangements and other contracting issues.
Address labor and workforce issues. We guide clients on wage fixing, no-poach agreements, recruitment strategies and information sharing in labor markets.
Design and implement compliance programs. We develop antitrust policies, training and monitoring tailored to health care operations and governance structures.
The Hall Render Advantage
Our team blends deep health care industry knowledge with national antitrust enforcement and litigation experience. The practice is led by a former Senior Trial Attorney from the DOJ Antitrust Division’s Health Care Task Force, and many of our attorneys have worked closely with federal and state enforcers. We understand how competition issues arise in real-world health care operations and transactions, and we use that insight to help clients minimize risk, respond effectively to investigations and prevail when disputes reach the courtroom.
Obtained dismissal for a general acute care hospital in a suit alleging federal antitrust claims based on revoking the privileges of physician-investors in a specialty hospital. Represented the general acute care hospital during discovery and on briefing on motion to dismiss, on appeal, and before the Supreme Court.
Neotonus v. American Medical Ass'n and American Urological Ass'n.
Obtained summary judgment for professional association after extensive discovery in an antitrust action alleging federal antitrust action alleging standard setting to exclude plaintiff’s product.
HomeTown Health v. Aultman Health Foundation.
Represented a plaintiff HMO in a state court antitrust suit alleging exclusionary broker commission practices against an integrated health system. The case was settled favorably for plaintiffs during trial after extensive discovery and motion practice.
United States v. Anthem, United States v. Aetna.
Represented multiple health systems in responding to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and defendants’ subpoenas for documents and depositions in DOJ’s litigation challenging the mergers of Anthem/Cigna and Aetna/Humana and represented those clients called as trial witnesses.
Samuel v Herrick Memorial Hospital.
Represented a hospital in a suit brought in federal court by a physician whose medical staff privileges had been suspended. The physician brought suit claiming, among other things, that the suspension violated federal antitrust laws. Obtained an immediate stay, and then reversal, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, of a preliminary injunction that was entered by a federal district court overturning the suspension.
Save Our Samaritan Hospital v Bay Medical.
Part of a team that obtained summary judgment on an antitrust challenge to a hospital merger in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and prevailed on appeal on such claims in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
United States v. Dentsply International, Inc.
Served as lead attorney in a successful five-year action alleging exclusive dealing claims against a monopolist manufacturer of dental products. The case involved over 100 depositions and novel issues involving survey and econometric evidence and culminated in a six-week trial and successful appeal to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
