title: Defending hospital mergers after the FTC's unorthodox challenge to the Evanston Northwestern--Highland Park transaction.
abstract: Examining the Federal Trade Commission's retrospective challenge of a hospital merger in Illinois, the author provides an insightful analysis of one of the agency's major antitrust enforcement initiatives in health care in the last several years. Because the case produced several departures from antitrust orthodoxy, these departures may affect the trials of future hospital mergers that are challenged. The author reviews the methodology and evidence of the case, and he identifies theories and best practices that are important for administrators and legal practitioners to implement in future mergers.
authors.affiliation: Baker & McKenzie LLP's, Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D016363:Antitrust Laws; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007087:Illinois; D019982:Organizational Case Studies / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D014485:United States Federal Trade Commission