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Regulatory & Compliance
Bid-Rigging Remains Focus Of DOJ Antitrust Criminal Enforcement: Businesses Need To Ensure Their Compliance
A number of recent U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“Antitrust Division”) press releases highlight the agency’s ongoing criminal enforcement initiatives regarding hard-core antitrust violations such as bid-rigging. Businesspersons often seem to forget that the...
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Buyers And Sellers Beware – Federal And State Antitrust Authorities Heighten Scrutiny Of Healthcare Provider M&A
The pace of consolidation and affiliations among healthcare providers has increased dramatically over the last year and is predicted to continue to increase in 2012. Whether the providers are attempting to increase their size and scope to combat Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rate reductions...
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FTC And DOJ Issue Proposed Statement Of Antitrust Policy Regarding Accountable Care Organizations Seeking To Participate In The Medicare Shared Savings Program
The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and Department of Justice's Antitrust Division ("DOJ") recently issued a joint Proposed Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Regarding Accountable Care Organizations Participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (the "...
Read MoreAntitrust Considerations In Forming Accountable Care Organizations And Bundled Payment Arrangements Under The Healthcare Reform Act
The recent healthcare reform act, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the "Act"), seeks to improve the nation's healthcare delivery system, in part, through incentives to enhance the quality of healthcare services provided to consumers, improve the healthcare outcomes for consumers and...
Read MoreMeeting The Challenges Of Achieving Diversity Goals
Editor: Please tell our readers of your backgrounds and your position in the firm with regard to the diversity issue. Murray: I joined the Firm in early 2003 as a senior Associate in the Firm's Litigation Practice Group and became a Member of the Firm in 2005. At the same time, I became Co-Chair...
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