FTC will reevaluate hospital consolidations.
Hospitals should take steps to ensure their recent consolidations can withstand renewed FTC antitrust scrutiny. The FTC will likely focus its attention on: Virtual mergers, in which "merging" organizations have combined operations while maintaining a degree of managerial independence; Mergers that were originally justified on the basis of projected efficiencies or lower prices; and Mergers of not-for-profit and for-profit organizations.
Brock
Thomas H
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Proskauer Rose, LLP, Washington, D.C., USA. tbrock@proskauer.com
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