healthcare antitrust
Medical Groups Call MultiPlan a “Hub-and-Spoke Cartel”
Joining other suits, complaint says company engages in price fixing with insurance companies. The American Medical Association (AMA) and Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) filed…
Major Electronic Medical Records Firm ‘Squashing’ Competition, Antitrust Suit Claims
Case pits newcomer against colossus said to control as much as 80-90% of the market. Particle Health Inc., a young healthcare data platform provider,…
DOJ, FTC, HHS Examining Private Equity Control Over Health Care Industry
“Private equity firms and other corporate owners are increasingly involved in health care system transactions, and, at times, those transactions may lead to a maximizing…
Pfizer Completes $5.4 Billion Acquisition of Sickle Cell Disease Drug Innovator
Pfizer Inc. has acquired Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. (GBT), a biopharmaceutical company whose leading product inhibits harmful medical conditions that lead to the relatively…
Courts Reject Two DOJ Merger Challenges as Another is On Trial
A brief setback for Biden’s war on anticompetitive deals? The number of mergers globally in 2021, according to PwC, was the biggest on record with…
FTC Sues to Block Illumina/Grail Deal
The Federal Trade Commission has filed an administrative complaint and authorized a federal court lawsuit to block Illumina’s $7.1 billion proposed acquisition of Grail —…
Hospital Merger Activity and Challenges: Two Conclude, One Merger Abandoned
Deal activity in the trillion-dollar U.S. patient-care industry has been hardy, despite projections that the pandemic might have slowed things down. That means the federal…