Healthcare lobbying organizations’ efforts to carve out industry-specific exemptions in recently proposed Federal Trade Commission policies are unlikely to see their requests reflected in the regulator’s final rulemaking, Commissioner Lina Khan suggested this week.
Speaking in a keynote panel at the American College of Emergency Physicians’ (ACEP’s) annual meeting this week, Khan outlined major proposals and enforcement actions that she described as much-needed updates to decades-old competition policy.
These efforts included January’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements, new merger and acquisition guidance for antitrust enforcement, at least three cases of successful litigation to block noncompetitive health system mergers and last month’s lawsuit targeting a private equity firm’s alleged “roll-up scheme” in the Texas anesthesia market, Fierce Healthcare reports. Read more.
