Ashley Fischer
Subscribe to Ashley Fischer's PostsAshley M. Fischer represents health care providers on a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters, including affiliations; collaborations; health reform initiatives and alignment strategies; joint ventures; and managed care contracting networks such as clinically integrated networks (CINs) and accountable care organizations (ACOs). Her health antitrust practice includes assessing the implications of the formation and operation of competitor collaborations (CINs, ACOs, joint ventures), merger analysis and defense, compliance and ordinary course conduct. Read Ashley Fischer's full bio.
Court Orders Divestiture of Consummated Physician Practice Acquisition
By Ashley Fischer on Feb 14, 2014
Posted In Healthcare Antitrust, Mergers & Acquisitions
In a challenge brought both by private plaintiffs and the government, a court has ruled that a health system’s acquisition of a competing physician group practice violated the antitrust laws where the transaction resulted in the health system employing 80 percent of the primary care physicians in one area. Hospitals and health systems pursuing physician...
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