As healthcare providers look to consolidation as a way to remain
competitive, regulatory agencies are aggressively staking out their
turf and challenging consolidations which have the potential to
yield anticompetitive results.
Recently, the FTC challenged two similar consolidations,
however, the courts that reviewed the actions by the FTC reached
different results. In F.T.C. v....
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