Summer 2012, Volume 7, Number 1

This second of our special health-care series concerns health care mergers, perhaps the thorniest antitrust issue that ObamaCare presents. While the ACA encourages cost savings through ACOs and other means, the antitrust authorities continue to be skeptical of health care institution mergers. Do all health care mergers fall between a rock and a hard place? Our […]

Robert Leibenluft, Jul 17, 2012 The past few years have been marked by increased consolidation among health care providers. Hospitals are merging with each other, physician groups are combining to create much larger, often single specialty practices, and hospitals are acquiring or employing an ever -growing number of physicians. Some observers have suggested that the […]

Lona Fowdur, John Gale, Jul 17, 2012 The Accountable Care Act (“ACA”) has brought to the fore the concept of Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”). These organizations comprise networks of otherwise unaffiliated providers that can obtain approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to become jointly responsible for the coordinated care of an assigned […]

Rosa Abrantes-Metz, Jul 17, 2012 Over the last year, large-scale investigations have been launched around the world on allegations of possible collusion and manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (“Libor”). Late in June this year, Barclays agreed to pay $452 million dollars on its conduct related to these allegations, in a settlement involving U.S. […]

Jeffrey Brennan, Ashley Fischer, David Marx, Jul 17, 2012 As hospitals and health systems continue to prepare for value-based reimbursement and other reforms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), many independent hospitals are left wondering how they can seek to achieve meaningful efficiencies-improvements in quality and access, and reductions in cost-mandated by those […]

David Pearl, Toby Singer, Jul 17, 2012 With the Supreme Court having resolved the constitutionality of the individual mandate component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, interested parties are now turning their attention to trying to divine how the ACA, mandate and all, will work in practice, as it gets fully phased in […]

Melissa Davenport, Ryan McManus, Jane Willis, Jul 17, 2012 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) withstood constitutional challenge in June 2012 and will define the shape of the U.S. healthcare system for years to come. Provisions within the ACA address the dual policy goals of controlling healthcare costs and ensuring high quality care, and […]