Virtual Health Care Antitrust: Meeting the Challenge
Sean May is a panelist on “Viewing Hospital and Physician Mergers from Two Sides.” The session covers: Key evidence used to evaluate competitive harm from...
CRA experts provide consultation and expert testimony in matters related to attempted monopolization or collusion and price fixing. Our experts use cutting-edge theory and empirical analyses to distinguish aggressive competition that is procompetitive from business practices that hinder competition or to assess the plausibility of collusion claims and to perform statistical analyses to distinguish between competitive and anti-competitive pricing and payment.
Attempted monopolization allegations include:
- Exclusive dealing
- Raising rivals’ costs
- Tying and bundling
- Most favored nations provisions (and other contracts that reference rivals)
- Monopsonistic reimbursement
- Entry exclusions through the Certificate of Need process
- Pay-for-delay
- Price discrimination
Collusion and price fixing allegations include:
- Common MCO reimbursement practices
- Joint provider negotiations
- Group boycotts
- Reverse payments/pay-for-delay
- Agreements to allocate customers
Engagements
- 01Putative class action litigation regarding allegedly misleading product demonstrationsCRA Vice President Dr. Debra Aron advised counsel to a consumer-products company and testified at deposition on economic issues related to class certification...View engagement
- 02CRA assists FTC in upholding of merger complaintOn April 29, Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell upheld a US Federal Trade Commission complaint challenging the consummated merger of Otto Bock...View engagement
- 03Testimony in health care breach of contract and damages matterCRA experts provided testimony in support of Steward Health Care Network’s effort to refute breach of contract, tortious interference, unfair and deceptive...View engagement