Healthcare Antitrust Challenges: Management Agreements, Joint Ventures and Ancillary Restraints
Complying with Antitrust Laws in the Ordinary Activities of Healthcare Organizations
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide guidance on addressing key healthcare antitrust issues that arise in management agreements, ancillary restraints, joint venture operations, and competitor collaborations. The panel will offer best practices for antitrust compliance for healthcare systems and providers.
Outline
- Management agreements and appropriate boundaries
- Exclusivity terms and covenants not to compete
- Salary benchmarking and surveys
- Joint ventures and firewalls, staffing decisions and managing information
- Due diligence, competitor agreements, communications
Benefits
Our panel will review these and other important issues:
- In competitor agreements, what information about rivals is off limits?
- When dealing with exclusivity terms and covenants not to compete, what are the limitations?
- What steps should counsel take to ensure antitrust compliance for healthcare organizations?
Faculty
Jeffrey W. Brennan
Partner
McDermott Will & Emery
Mr. Brennan focuses his practice on mergers, litigation, government investigations and counseling, with extensive... | Read More
Mr. Brennan focuses his practice on mergers, litigation, government investigations and counseling, with extensive experience across a broad range of industries, including the health care sector. He previously headed the FTC's Health Care Services and Products Division, where he was responsible for managing antitrust investigations, litigation, and policy initiatives focused on health care competition involving hospitals, medical professionals, group purchasing organizations, and pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
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Ashley M. Fischer
Partner
McDermott Will & Emery
Ms. Fischer's practice is transactional and counseling-based and includes representation of healthcare... | Read More
Ms. Fischer's practice is transactional and counseling-based and includes representation of healthcare organizations. Her transactional practice includes mergers, acquisitions and affiliations; divestitures; hospital/physician joint ventures and corporate reorganization. Her regulatory practice focuses on antitrust; the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws; health information privacy; and other regulatory matters.
CloseStephen Wu
Partner
McDermott Will & Emery
Mr. Wu focuses his practice on antitrust litigation, defending mergers and acquisitions before antitrust enforcement... | Read More
Mr. Wu focuses his practice on antitrust litigation, defending mergers and acquisitions before antitrust enforcement agencies, and counseling clients on antitrust compliance issues. He counsels clients on healthcare antitrust, pricing and distribution, standards-setting, and compliance with consumer protection laws. He has defended clients in litigation against federal and state antitrust and unfair competition claims, and represented clients in criminal antitrust investigations.
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