BakerHostetler’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation practice advises providers and other healthcare clients on a variety of antitrust compliance and litigation issues, including antitrust compliance programs; joint purchasing programs and other collaborative ventures; information sharing; credentialing and physician staff issues; hospital and physician contracting issues; provider mergers, including transactions involving hospitals, physicians and other providers; and accountable care organizations.
We provide guidance on potential antitrust issues that may occur with various types of healthcare transactions, such as acquisitions of hospitals and physician practices, network and other provider joint ventures, mergers, and any other type of business combination. We provide support related to hospital merger issues for both the merging parties and related third parties. Our team represents clients involved in government investigations related to healthcare antitrust issues, and we defend healthcare clients facing civil and criminal antitrust challenges brought by both federal and state government agencies and private plaintiffs nationwide.