Falling in Love is Easy/Breaking up is Hard to Do

If it were real life, it would be Peyton Place, as local hospitals hop out of old relationships and try to enter new ones.  Rob Craig of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP will discuss recent antitrust developments in the health law industry, with a focus on local hospital mergers and dissolutions.  Topics will include:

• The FTC’s decision in Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and what it might mean for the St. Luke’s/St. E’s merger.
• The breakup of the Health Alliance and the antitrust issues that it raises.   
• Recent enforcement actions/advisory opinions on physician networks, including the Consent Decree entered by Judge Beckwith in the Federation of Physicians and Dentists case.