Tag: Healthcare
New FTC Commissioner’s Potential Impact on Healthcare Antitrust Review
Alvaro Bedoya’s confirmation has restored a Democratic majority on the Federal Trade Commission. Under a Democratic majority, FTC Chair Khan has the ability to...
Patients v. Hospitals: Why Define Markets At All if Every Market...
Hospital merger cases are won or lost on geographic market definition. The Third Circuit’s recent finding that it is appropriate to define geographic markets...
Labor Markets in Healthcare Transactions: A Work in Progress
"We will fight for American workers including in connection with illegal mergers that substantially lessen competition for laborers.” So said Assistant Attorney General Jonathan...
Evolving Antitrust Analysis of Hospital Mergers: How Differences between Patient and...
Mergers that expand healthcare systems, even when they combine providers that are unlikely to compete for inpatient discharges, are increasingly under scrutiny. Empirical academic...
DOJ Sues To Block UnitedHealth’s Bid For Change Healthcare
The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday in a bid to stop health insurer UnitedHealth Group from buying Change Healthcare, reported Reuters.
The $7.84...
Brazilian Watchdog Stops Hapvida’s Healthcare Deal
Brazilian antitrust watchdog CADE has blocked a deal announced by healthcare company Hapvida Participações to by health insurer Plamed.
CADE´s technical body had given an...
The Unchecked Market Power of the American Health Care System
By: David Ennis (Pro Market)
In May 2003, the late Princeton health economist Ewe Reinhardt and colleagues published a frequently-cited paper titled “It’s the Prices, Stupid: Why...
AHA Urges DOJ To Probe UnitedHealth’s Acquisition Of Change Healthcare
In a letter to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, AHA expressed concern over the implications of UnitedHealth Group’s US$8 billion acquisition of...
On Their Silver Anniversary, It’s Time to Burnish the Healthcare Guidelines
Twenty-five years have passed since the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission last revised their Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy...
Stacking the Blocks: Vertical Integration and Antitrust in the Healthcare Industry
For many decades, the U.S. healthcare industry mostly consisted of a diversity of unintegrated physicians, hospitals, and insurers. Over the last 10 to 15...
