2024 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting Session Summary: Attacking and Defending Healthcare Mergers

Pablo Varas authored an article summarizing the 2024 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting session on healthcare mergers. The panelists discussed recent healthcare merger enforcement actions and how companies are seeking to overcome those challenges. The article highlights key lessons from recent healthcare mergers, in particular the IQVIA-Propel, Amgen-Horizon, and Illumina-Grail mergers. It also gives an outline of recent enforcement actions in hospital mergers and some key topics that appear to interest enforcers when reviewing proposed mergers.

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