Healthcare organizations face a constantly shifting mix of business and regulatory challenges. Business combinations—like mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures—can drive growth, but they also bring complexity and antitrust risk. Dickinson Wright’s Healthcare Antitrust team works with hospitals, physician groups, health plans, and other healthcare organizations to navigate these challenges, avoid legal pitfalls, and support opportunities for growth and stability.
We provide practical guidance on all aspects of healthcare, including mergers, joint ventures, clinically integrated networks, contracting, and regulatory compliance. Our attorneys combine their deep knowledge of healthcare operations with extensive experience in antitrust law to help clients plan transactions, structure collaborations, and respond effectively to government investigations.
Our Healthcare Antitrust Services
- Antitrust Risk & Regulatory Strategy: Analysis and guidance for mergers, acquisitions (including Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act filings), affiliations, and other business arrangements.
- Joint Ventures & Clinically Integrated Networks: Structuring and compliance support for collaborative healthcare initiatives.
- Group Purchasing & Contracting Issues: Legal guidance on pricing, exclusion, and competitive contracting practices.
- Litigation & Investigations: Defense and response to government investigations, conspiracy claims, and civil litigation.
- Compliance & Emerging Trends: Certificate of Need considerations, and ongoing regulatory monitoring.
Representative Matters
- Represented health plans in civil antitrust litigation involving allegations of price fixing, refusals to deal, and monopolization.
- Defended insurers in federal and state investigations regarding “most favored nation” clauses in payor arrangements.
- Advised healthcare providers on antitrust issues related to ACOs, GPOs, network admissions, physician organizations, joint ventures, and clinically integrated networks.
- Represented health systems in mergers and acquisitions, including securing regulatory clearance from the FTC and state authorities.
- Defended a healthcare provider in litigation regarding accreditation denial by a national certifying organization for allegedly anticompetitive reasons.
