Tag: Healthcare
A Step Forward or Backward: The Court’s Application of Geographic Market...
The Federal Trade Commission and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General recently challenged a proposed hospital system merger in the Philadelphia, PA area as...
Physician Groups – The Next Enforcement Frontier for Healthcare Provider Mergers?
The Federal Trade Commission’s recent announcement that it will be undertaking a retrospective study of physician group consolidations may signal an increased focus on...
Enforcing Competition Law in the English Health Care System
The UK Department of Health and Social Care has published a white paper titled Integration and innovation: working together to improve health and social...
Rethinking Competition in Healthcare – Reflections from a Small Island
After approximately 30 years, and following a decisive move towards integrated care systems, competition reforms in English healthcare seem to be rejected, even though...
Ant Group In Talks With Chinese Watchdog To Revive Healthcare Unit
Jack Ma’s Ant Group is in talks with regulators in China to revive its crowdfunded medical coverage unit, Xiang Hu Bao, and develop it...
Biden Antitrust Agenda Ignores States’ Complicity On Health Care Monopolies
By Lindsay Killen, The Hill
It comes as no surprise that the Biden administration has taken ambitious early action to expand the federal government’s jurisdiction...
The States as Laboratories of Federalism: The Novel and Innovative Ventures...
Starting off from the vantage point of Justice Brandeis’ famous paean to federalism and state experimentation in his dissenting opinion in New State Ice...
Expectations for Healthcare Mergers During the Pandemic
By Andrew Elzinga, Avigail Kifer & Arthur Corea-Smith (Cornerstone Research)1
Trends in merger investigations related to the current COVID-19-induced downturn may be too new to...
Antitrust & COVID-19 in The U.S.: Four Key Issues for Healthcare...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt industries around the globe, and the impact on the healthcare industry has been especially profound. Healthcare providers...
France Clears Elsan’s Acquisition Of Hexagone Santé Méditerranée
Frances Autorité de la concurrence has cleared Elsan’s acquisition of Hexagone Santé Méditerranée subject to commitments, the regulator reported Monday (March 1).
Elsan operates 120...
