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Antitrust Enforcement in the Health Care Industry: Current FTC and DOJ Activities

Recorded on: Jun. 13, 2012
Running Time: 01:04:06

Taken from the briefing Antitrust Enforcement in the Health Care Industry: Current FTC and DOJ Activities recorded June 2012.

With health care costs seemingly spiraling out of control, federal antitrust regulators have turned a watchful eye to the health care industry.  The FTC and DOJ have made it clear that they will aggressively challenge both new transactions and established practices they believe threaten competition.  The last several years have, in fact, seen new and untested antitrust activities by the DOJ and FTC.  From raising monopolization claims against some of the nation’s largest health insurers, to increasingly challenging hospital combinations, to creating new, parallel, exemptions for non-Medicare accountable care organizations, the last few years have seen aggressive and unprecedented intervention in health care markets by antitrust regulators.

Lecture Topics  [Total Time: 01:04:06]

Andrew Holly, a partner in Dorsey & Whitney LLP’s trial department, provides background on the DOJ/FTC’s new enforcement priorities and activities, including:

  • Background on the antitrust laws and their application to the health care industry
  • History on the DOJ/FTC’s regulation of the health care field
  • Insights on the Obama Administration’s new efforts to regulate the health care field
  • Update on the recent antitrust actions against Blue Cross/Blue Shield
  • Review of DOJ/FTC efforts to block Hospital/Provider mergers and joint collaborations
  • Examining the new DOJ/FTC antitrust exemptions for non-Medicare accountable care organizations
  • Update on new private antitrust challenges to companies in the health care industry

Presentation Material

  • Current Trends in FTC/DOJ Antitrust Enforcement in the Health Care Industry
    Andrew Holly
Speaker(s)
Andrew Holly ~ Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

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