antitrust

The antitrust agency will get the last laugh as it succeeds in thwarting another merger.

Algorithms make it possible for companies to fix prices without explicitly coordinating with one another.

HealthyCompetition.gov is the latest effort by federal regulators to monitor the ongoing consolidation of the healthcare sector.

Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly...

A bipartisan coalition of 39 AGs wants Congress and the FTC 'to ensure fulsome regulation of PBMs nationwide.'

This latest preliminary injunction is the commission's fourth successful healthcare sector merger challenge within a one-month span.

As insurers design a healthcare market that is evermore concentrated, where does that leave Americans looking for a competitive plan?

Health-insurance providers couldn't agree on financial terms for deal that would have created $140 billion giant.

Over the past three years, regulators have signaled they would apply more scrutiny to private equity acquisitions in healthcare.

Physician-advocates say that lifting the ban would provide a counterwight to the ongoing consolidation of traditional hospitals.

Ballad has not met many of the quality benchmarks nor provided much of the charity.

For 50 years, federal regulators have not stepped in to prevent hospitals from merging with systems in other markets.