Antitrust Enforcement
Recent Trends in Legislation and Regulation
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 6, 2014
As the “laboratories of democracy,” the states play a major role in creating new laws and shaping public policy on important issues, including those related to healthcare costs and competition. Our Legislation/Regulation page provides various ways to research and track recent happenings in the legislative and regulatory arena. Our state-by-state map displays new regulatory and legislative developments, and these developments can be further explored by viewing the documents below the map, which are organized by topic, including by specific type of statute. Also, The Source Blog will take you through …
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Antitrust in Healthcare: Enforcement & Litigation Cases and Trends
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 5, 2014
The Source’s focus on healthcare competition includes collecting and reporting on antitrust litigation and enforcement activity in the sector. We follow state and federal enforcement efforts by attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, as well as private actions brought by individuals and classes of plaintiffs. The Litigation/Enforcement page contains three main sections: (1) the federal merger enforcement timeline|(2) the state-by-state map of recent and ongoing litigation and enforcement activity|and (3) documents including case summaries, litigation documents, news articles, press releases, and more, organized by topic/case. We …
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In re Evanston Northwestern: Plaintiff Class Certified Following the FTC’s Succesful Challenge to a Consumated Hospital Merger
Source Fellow March 8, 2014
By: Cameron Halling In re Evanston Northwestern, currently pending in federal district court in the Northern District of Illinois, represents the first private class action antitrust lawsuit brought as a result of a hospital merger. At issue in Evanston is the 2000 acquisition of Highland Park Hospital by rival Evanston Northwestern HealthCare Corp. Four years after the completion of the merger, the FTC filed a retroactive administrative complaint, alleging that the merger had significantly lessened competition for general acute care hospital services in Chicago’s north shore area. See FTC Press …
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