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28 September 2021

On 4 August 2021, the District Court of New Jersey granted the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) motion for preliminary injunction, preventing Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) and...

Hogan Lovells Publications

07 May 2019

Vertical relationships and changing antitrust enforcementVertical relationships may be a viable solution for lowering the burden of health care costs, but large-scale mergers of health...

Published Works

01 February 2018

What is the issue? Information exchanges within the health care sector will increase as providers and payers seek to provide more integrated care and enter into alternative payment models...

Hogan Lovells Publications

06 April 2017

Despite a recent decision by the Second Circuit suggesting that anti-steering contractual provisions in other industries may not be anticompetitive, DOJ's lawsuit (United States v....

Hogan Lovells Publications

24 June 2016

The antitrust agencies have made it clear that hospital mergers are a high enforcement priority. A new lawsuit, United States v. Carolinas Healthcare System, brought by the Department of...

Hogan Lovells Publications

21 October 2015

A Supreme Court decision from February ruled that state regulatory boards run by “a controlling number” of “active market participants” can qualify for an antitrust exemption only if they...

Published Works

April 2015

The Supreme Court's recent decision in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission will have a real and lasting effect on how state boards regulate and license...

Published Works

05 March 2015

In 2014 there were a number of significant antitrust developments related to litigation in the pharmaceutical industry. These involved not only pharmaceutical patent litigation settlements...

Hogan Lovells Publications

17 July 2014

In an informative speech at the recent Accountable Care Organizations Summit, Federal Trade Commission Director of the Bureau of Competition Deborah Feinstein articulated her current...