In this issue: Healthcare is not only a contentious antitrust issue, but a highly confusing one; we focus here on clinical integration. Christi Braun looks at the challenge of promoting…

Ashley Fischer, David Marx, Oct 11, 2010 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) established various mechanisms to make healthcare providers more accountable for both the cost and quality…

Antonio Bavasso, Simon Pritchard, Oct 11, 2010 The Government’s spending review provides an opportunity to look strategically at possible reforms in U.K. competition law enforcement. The reforms that modernized the…

Gregory Pelnar, Oct 11, 2010 Are “clinically integrated” physician networks that jointly contract with third-party payors such as Blue Cross little more than “candy-coated” cartels? If the answer is not…

Gregory Vistnes, Oct 11, 2010 The Affordable Care Act provides for the formation of Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”). These ACOs will be composed of health care providers (hospitals and physicians)…

Melinda Hatton, Oct 11, 2010 During the year-long debate over health care reform, removing barriers to clinical integration received far less attention than it should have. It was preempted by…

Heather Cooper, Oct 11, 2010 Thanks to a recent federal district court decision, physicians and medical staff have more reason to think twice about price and other arrangements adopted by…

Christi Braun, Oct 11, 2010 The reason that clinical integration is a topic on which the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) have written…