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The U.S. healthcare system has been undergoing significant
changes since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, which
helped precipitate a wave of hospital and healthcare system
consolidation, as providers sought out ways to achieve scale to
reduce costs and improve quality.
Over the same period of time, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) and Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ) continued
to closely scrutinize provider transactions. The FTC in
particular reinvigorated its hospital merger enforcement in the
early 2000s and successfully challenged a number of hospital