Health Care Antitrust Alert: DOJ Reaches Settlement Prohibiting Hospital From Entering Into Anticompetitive Contracts With Health Insurers

Mondaq Business Briefing › United States Law Articles in English (2011)

Author: Mr Mintz Levin Health Antitrust Group

Author position: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

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Health Care Antitrust Alert: DOJ Reaches Settlement Prohibiting Hospital From Entering Into Anticompetitive Contracts With Health Insurers

The Obama Administration's DOJ Antitrust Division has highlighted reinvigorated enforcement of Section 2 of the Sherman Act and strong antitrust enforcement in health care markets as two of its priorities. Christine Varney, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, withdrew the controversial Section 2 enforcement policy report issued during the Bush Administration as one of her first official actions.1 Likewise, one of Ms. Varney's major policy speeches, delivered almost a year ago, focused on heal...

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