At Emergency Med Conference, FTC Chair Decries Vertical Integration

PHILADELPHIA — Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, told attendees at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly on Oct. 11 that the FTC is paying close attention to so-called vertical integration in the health care industry.

“The FTC for decades, before I even arrived, had really been focused on what are known as horizontal mergers, between hospitals in particular,” she said. “But we’ve seen over the last decade that the tactics are changing. We are increasingly seeing not just the merger of alike, but also the merger of different entities within the same supply chain, what’s known as vertical integration.”

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Tim Casey

Tim Casey

Tim has worked as a reporter and editor for more than 20 years. Before joining AIS Health in December 2021, he was a business reporter covering the commercial real estate industry’s capital markets for four years. He previously covered health care business issues for two medical publishing companies and high school, college and professional sports for the Sacramento Bee newspaper. Tim has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.

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