Federal Courts Reject Challenges to Pennsylvania Hospital Merger

Jefferson Health Finalizes Merger with Einstein Healthcare Network

In December 2020, the court rejected the FTC and Pennsylvania's claims, agreeing with the hospitals' arguments that the geographic markets were overly narrow ...

Judge delivers FTC rare healthcare loss in Pennsylvania hospital case

U.S. District Judge John Jones III rejected the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the merger between Penn State Hershey, a 508- ...

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Antitrust Implications in Nonprofit Hospital Mergers;Note

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Statement of - PA General Assembly

... Consolidation. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ... Given the extraordinary challenges placed on the health care delivery system, hospital mergers.

FTC, PA Challenging Proposed Hospital Merger in Philadelphia

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issued an administrative complaint last week challenging the ...

Third Circuit Grants FTC Injunction in Penn State Hershey-Pinnacle ...

The district court also found it "extremely compelling" that the hospitals had entered into private agreements with the two largest insurers in Central ...

FTC Loses Bid to Block Philadelphia Hospital Merger

On December 8, the FTC lost the first of its 2020 hospital merger challenges. United States District Judge Gerald Pappert denied the FTC's ...

Defending Hospital Mergers after the FTCs Unorthodox Challenge ...

The Federal Trade Commission's ("FTC's") retrospective challenge to the merger of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation ("ENH") and.

Hospital consolidation matters - Equitable Growth

Antitrust agencies have taken the threat of hospital consolidation seriously, and the Federal Trade Commission has made significant shifts to ...

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Recent Private Merger Challenges: Anomaly or Harbinger?

The federal antitrust agencies frequently decline to chal- lenge a merger ... cases where courts have rejected the argument that failure by the federal ...

19-123 Fulton v. Philadelphia (06/17/2021) - Supreme Court

Smith, 494 U. S., at 884. Where such a system of individual exemp- tions exists, the government may not refuse to extend that system to cases of ...

Appeals court blocks Pennsylvania hospital merger | Reuters

A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked the proposed merger of the two largest hospital systems in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area.

Comments of Eleven Attorneys General in Response to the February ...

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A federal appeals court decision Tuesday pausing Penn State Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center's merger with PinnacleHealth System has placed the Federal Trade ...

The Evolution of Federal Courts' Healthcare Antitrust Analysis

the FTC unbundled certain services provided by the hospital, making it easier to challenge hospital mergers, but courts are also beginning to reject the ...

Hospital Mergers in 2024: Five Things to Know - Medscape

"Going forward, I would expect federal authorities to review not only the competitive impact of the hospitals merging but also the competitive ...

FTC Loss in Hospital Merger Shows Failing Firm Defense is Alive ...

In doing so, the court found that both hospitals were likely to close soon, and thus exit the market as competitors, and that CHS had conducted ...