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16 December 2014

FTC Centennial: How Health Care Antitrust Has Evolved

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Mintz

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Mintz is a general practice, full-service Am Law 100 law firm with more than 600 attorneys. We are headquartered in Boston and have additional US offices in Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, as well as an office in Toronto, Canada.
ACA, accountable care organizations, Affordable Care Act, antitrust, antitrust risks, FTC, health care antitrust, health care antitrust enforcement, Health Care Reform
United States Antitrust/Competition Law

This year the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") celebrated its centennial.  Looking back on the FTC's first 100 years, we have seen dramatic shifts in antitrust enforcement in the health care sector.  The delivery of health care services, a profession some once argued should be exempt from antitrust scrutiny or impervious to traditional antitrust analysis due to unique characteristics of the industry, has become one of the Commission's primary enforcement priorities.  "FTC Centennial: How Health Care Antitrust Has Evolved," provides a brief overview of the evolution of the FTC's health care antitrust enforcement efforts and identifies emerging trends as the FTC embarks upon its second century.

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