Showing posts with label Antitrust policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antitrust policy. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

FTC Withdraws 2000 Antitrust Guidelines for Collaborations Among Competitors

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On Dec. 11, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) jointly announced the withdrawal of the Antit...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

New England Journal of Medicine: "The Failing U.S. Health System"

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It should come as a shock to no one that our health care "system" is only a "system" in the loosest sense of the word. ...
Saturday, March 09, 2024

Revised Merger Guidelines from DOJ & FTC: What Effect on Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices?

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  On Dec. 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission issued their updated Merger Guidelines , hitting the ...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Health Care M&A Activity Hits 3-year Low . . . Or Not

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Becker's Hospital Review  has  a story  (Aug. 9) about  a KPMG report  that describes a three-year decline in merger-and-acquisition act...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Noncompete Clauses, the FTC, and the Health Care Industry

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As described in an  excellent paper on the American Bar Association's website (sorry, but you need to be an ABA member -- or know one -...
Monday, July 24, 2023

New Proposed Merger Guidelines from FTC & DOJ

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  In a previous post (May 25, 2023) , I featured some of the criticisms leveled by Daniel Sokol and Dick Pierce against the emerging M&A...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Teva & Gilead Prevail in $3.6 Billion "Pay for Delay" Suit

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I haven't seen much discussion of this verdict handed down by a federal jury on Friday out in California that cleared the two pharmaceut...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

Private Equity, Consolidation, and Prices of HC Goods and Services

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Good article in the Washington Post on June 29 . The case study concerns U.S. Anesthesia Partners, which has been on a buying spree. The bu...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Merger Chaos at the FTC?

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If there's one indisputable legal and business trend in the health care industry over the past 10-20 years, it's the move toward gre...