The Health Law Practice includes several skilled antitrust lawyers who are experienced counseling and litigating, and are fully conversant with applicable evolving economic theories.

We advise physicians and hospitals on clinical and economic integration, on the appropriate use of the "messenger model," and on contracting and negotiating strategies with payors.  Additionally, we have drafted and reviewed provider contracts and managed care contracts, and counseled clients on exclusive contracts involving hospitals, physicians and managed care plans.

We also provide antitrust advice to clients regarding their medical staff, including advice on peer review, allied health professionals, accreditation, the closing of a medical staff or department and the use of economic credentialing in medical staff membership and clinical privileges decisions.

We often work with in-house counsel and staff to develop an effective antitrust compliance program.  We recently conducted an antitrust audit for a large health care system with more
than 20 hospital facilities.

When clients are involved in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, we regularly prepare and handle filings under Hart-Scott-Rodino laws to avoid litigation and governmental challenge of the transaction.  In the unlikely event that an antitrust agency such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigates a particular transaction, we have avoided expensive or time-consuming administrative review by persuading the government not to challenge the transaction.

Our antitrust litigators have handled many complex health care antitrust cases, including for mergers which remain the leading cases in the industry, and we have also litigated non-merger cases.