Hospital Mergers Under Pressure: The Remedies That Move Deals Forward

Ken Field, Health Care Antitrust Practice Leader, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, speaks with Amanda Wait, Partner, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, about hospital merger review and the role remedies play in getting deals through a very challenging antitrust environment. They discuss why the remedies question is currently so important for hospital and health system transactions, the impact of multi-jurisdictional review, what’s changed at the federal level regarding remedies, the differences between structural and behavioral remedies, the concept of “litigating the fix” and considerations around using that strategy, the kinds of behavioral remedies that are showing up at the state review level, and practical takeaways for hospitals and health systems. Amanda recently authored a Health Law Connections article about this topic. From AHLA’s Antitrust Practice Group.Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCSjgr8sDnkRead Amanda’s Health Law Connections article: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/content-library/connections-magazine/2026/may-june-2026/hospital-mergers-under-pressure-the-remedies-that Learn more about AHLA’s Antitrust Practice Group: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/practice-groups/practice-groups/antitrust Essential Legal Updates, Now in AudioAHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal EducationLearn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.