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Article: Antitrust Agencies Focus On The Health Care Industry.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- November 18, 2002
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The FTC has increased its interest in health care. First, the Commission announced the formation of a Merger Litigation Task Force to focus on turning around the FTC's to date unsuccessful challenges to hospital mergers. The Task Force will review past mergers to determine whether price increases occurred and a new challenge to a merger is warranted, as well as new mergers. The Task Force has already begun its task, recently issuing subpoenas to Tenet HealthCare Corp. in order to reexamine a 1999 merger of two Missouri hospitals now owned by Tenet, and to health plans that do business with Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, a Chicago facility that merged in 2000. According ...