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Federal Trade Commission Finally Wins a Hospital Merger Challenge


Federal Trade Commission Finally Wins a Hospital Merger Challenge

Federal Trade Commission Finally Wins a Hospital Merger Challenge. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently prevailed in a challenge to a ...

FTC's Hospital Merger Win Streak Ends - Davis Wright Tremaine

... FTC's challenge to the proposed merger of New Jersey hospital ... The FTC ultimately won both of those appeals and prevented hospital mergers ...

"Wheels Fall Off" FTC's Latest Hospital Merger Challenge | Insights

In FTC v. Community Health Systems Inc. & Novant Health Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina denied the ...

FTC Ends Administrative Challenge of Hospital Merger in Joplin ...

The federal district court action was intended to maintain the independence and viability of the two hospitals so that, if the FTC ultimately ...

Hospitals and Clinics - Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission today sued to block Novant Health, Inc.'s $320 million acquisition of two North Carolina hospitals from Community Health Systems, ...

FTC maintains strong hospital merger record after Novant/CHS case

The Federal Trade Commission's recent track record in hospital merger challenges avoided a rare blemish as Novant Health dropped its proposed acquisition of ...

FTC's Hospital Merger Challenges Hit Speedbump in Philadelphia

The Federal Trade Commission's (“FTC”) recent winning streak in its ongoing challenges of hospital and physician mergers has, at least for ...

The FTC is cracking down on big healthcare companies - PIRG

In 2022, the Commission brought 24 merger enforcement challenges against various companies—the second highest number recorded in the last decade ...

The FTC's Three Current Hospital Merger Challenges: Will the FTC ...

Beginning with the Federal Trade Commission's 2007 decision in Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corp., holding that a hospital merger in the North Chicago ...

FTC Ends Administrative Challenge To Hospital Merger In Grand ...

... hospitals so that, if the FTC ultimately won the administrative case, it could devise an effective remedy to restore competition. The ...

FTC Continues Active Enforcement with Decision to Block Hospital ...

Although the challenging and dynamic environment facing many hospitals and the requirements of the Affordable Care Act might suggest that the Federal Trade ...

Hospital Mergers Increase Costs and Do Not Improve Quality - PMC

It has also won its first-ever litigated case challenging a health system's acquisition of a physician group. These court wins by the FTC have caused ...

FTC drills down on cross-market hospital mergers

“A challenge is not ready for prime time, but a test case will come at some point,” said Kenneth Vorrasi, an antitrust healthcare lawyer at law ...

THE CONTINUING SAGA OF HOSPITAL MERGER ENFORCEMENT

The parties aban- doned that deal shortly after the FTC sued, marking the first agency win in over a decade.3 The FTC's successful challenge in ...

Merger Review | Federal Trade Commission

Among the key provisions in U.S. antitrust law is one designed to prevent anticompetitive mergers or acquisitions. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, the FTC ...

Is the FTC's Campaign Against Hospital Mergers Effective?

By contrast, the FTC challenged a total of three hospital mergers ... (The FTC's other prominent victories in 2022 include blocking the merger ...

Reflections on 20 Years of Merger Enforcement under the Hart-Scott ...

Today, almost all mergers reviewed or challenged by the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division are reported under HSR. But questions remain ...

Antitrust and Health Care Providers - Federal Trade Commission

the agency revamp its approach to hospital merger ... Finally, we should be as aggressive as possible in challenging the mergers we encounter.

Biden's FTC Has Blocked 4 Hospital Mergers and Is Poised to ...

Fresh off the Federal Trade Commission's successful challenges to four hospital mergers ... In one of the FTC's recent victories ...

FTC wins two key hospital merger challenges in federal courts

The primary issue in both cases was defining the always-elusive “relevant geographic market” in which hospitals compete. The circuit courts' ...