Christi Braun and Farrah Short have submitted a paper for the 2012 ABA/AHLA Antitrust in Healthcare Conference in which they discuss the proper role of antitrust enforcement in achieving today’s health care reform goals in the context of hospital-health insurer vertical mergers. The paper focuses on the recent acquisition of the West Penn Allegheny Health System,… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions
Subscribe to Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions RSS FeedML Strategies Posts Weekly Health Care Reform Update on April 9, 2012
Posted in Health Care Reform, Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions, UncategorizedML Strategies has posted its weekly Health Care Reform Update. This publication provides timely and concise information on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and other state and federal administrative and legislative activities related to health care reform.
Department of Justice Requires Divestitures to Preserve Competition for Medicare Advantage Plans
Posted in Antitrust, Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions, Payors & PBMs, UncategorizedWritten by: Helen Kim and Robert Kidwell Under a proposed settlement agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ), private insurers Humana Inc. (Humana) and Arcadian Management Services, Inc. (Arcadian) must divest certain of Arcadian’s assets in parts of five states in order for Humana to proceed with its $150 million acquisition of Arcadian. On March… Continue Reading
FTC Petitions for Rare Supreme Court Review of Hospital Acquisition
Posted in Antitrust, Hospitals & Health Systems, Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions, State & Federal Audits, Investigations & LitigationWritten by Christi Braun, Matthew Cohen, and Bruce Sokler Last week, the Solicitor General, at the request of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling of the Eleventh Circuit regarding the acquisition of Palmyra Park Hospital (Palmyra) in Albany, Georgia by Phoebe Putney Health System (PPHS). In December 2010,… Continue Reading
Long Term Care & Senior Living Facilities, 7 Steps to Divesture Every Nonprofit Should Follow
Posted in Long-term Care/Skilled Nursing Facilities, Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions, UncategorizedDaria Niewenhous has co-authored an article appearing in the March 23, 2012 issue of Long Term Living Magazine entitled, 7 Steps to Divestiture Every Nonprofit Should Follow. The first in a two-part series, this article discusses how a nonprofit can find an appropriate buyer (nonprofit or for-profit) and mutually agree upon the terms of the transation… Continue Reading
Nonprofits: The Art of Negotiating a Sale
Posted in Long-term Care/Skilled Nursing Facilities, Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions, UncategorizedCheck out the article, Nonprofits: The Art of Negotiating a Sale. Written by Daria Niewenhous of Mintz Levin and Mike Ashley of Lancaster Pollard, this article appears in Senior Housing News and offers practical insights on the purchase and sale of nonprofit assets.
Rockford Rerun: FTC Sues to Stop Hospital Merger
Posted in Antitrust, Hospitals & Health Systems, Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions, State & Federal Audits, Investigations & LitigationMy colleagues Christi Braun, Rob Kidwell, and Bruce Sokler have authored a health care antitrust advisory detailing an administrative complaint and a district court complaint recently filed by the FTC to block OSF Healthcare System’s proposed acquisition of Rockford Health System. The FTC sees the merger as a rerun of the government’s successful challenge of a similar hospital merger in Rockford in… Continue Reading
When Is It Time to Pull the Plug in a Health Care Transaction?
Posted in Mergers, Acquisitions & Other Transactions, State & Federal Audits, Investigations & LitigationThe Deal Pipeline recently published my article entitled Pulling the Plug?, which discusses the important question that many buyers must face in health care transactions: when is it time to walk away from the potential acquisition of a health care company that is under government investigation? The article provides some guidance on how to distinguish between a deal killer and… Continue Reading
House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Health Care Industry Consolidation
Posted in Health Care Reform, Mergers, Acquisitions & Other TransactionsWritten by Jared Alves, Kevin Kappel, and Stephanie Willis A House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on September 9th showed that the debate over the meaning of the terms “consolidation” versus “integration” in the health care context is more than petty semantics. During a hearing titled “Health Care Industry Consolidation,” the majority of the participants testified that,… Continue Reading
