EpsteinBeckerGreen has more than two decades of success in providing health care clients innovative antitrust counseling and defense, including defense of mergers and acquisitions, business relationships and strategies and other aspects of their operations. Whether it is prospective counseling to avoid antitrust risks or defending against lawsuits and government investigations, EpsteinBeckerGreen attorneys have been at the forefront of the evolution of health care antitrust law. In fact, the firm obtained the country’s first antitrust business clearance in a matter involving joint planning by hospitals in Virginia in 1977. Later, the firm successfully defended the first challenge by the U.S. Department of Justice of a merger between two non-profit hospitals. That tradition of leadership continues as firm attorneys counsel clients regarding the antitrust implications of today’s dynamic, rapidly-evolving health care markets. Firm attorneys are authors of many respected texts on antitrust law and frequently provide significant advice to federal regulatory agencies and committees of Congress. EpsteinBeckerGreen attorneys are proud of their in-depth knowledge of all aspects of health care markets, which they use to provide clients with comprehensive antitrust guidance.

EpsteinBeckerGreen provides antitrust counsel and a full range of antitrust litigation services to all sectors of the health care industry, including: hospitals, hospital systems, physicians, multi-specialty medical groups, insurance companies, managed care organizations, pharmaceutical companies and many national associations and alliances of health care providers. The firm provides clients with a wide range of antitrust legal services, including strategic planning to minimize antitrust challenges of complex new corporate structures and contractual relationships.

EpsteinBeckerGreen provides complete antitrust legal services for our health care clients, including:

• Performing antitrust compliance audits of existing contracts, strategic partnerships and financial relationships
  
  
• Developing strategic legal plans for acquisitions, expansions and collaborations
  
  
• Developing creative organizational and governance structures to minimize potential antitrust risks in joint ventures and other collaborations with other health care industry participants
  
  
• Preparing legal opinions regarding mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other forms of integration
  
  
• Guiding providers and payors through mergers, acquisitions and joint venture formation
  
  
• Representing clients in investigations and/or litigation by federal or state enforcement agencies or private parties on a variety of health care and managed care issues, including exclusive contracts, provider exclusions, most favored nation pricing, alleged exclusionary conduct, and monopolization
  
  
• Representing clients in federal and state courts in contested mergers and acquisitions, and other legal challenges to clients’ business activities and operations
  
  
• Developing compliance plans and programs to ensure business practices and operations conform to applicable federal and state laws and regulations
  
  
• Resolving integrated delivery system antitrust issue