• Affiliations
• Collaborations
• Health reform initiatives and alignment strategies
• Joint ventures
• Managed care contracting networks such as clinically integrated networks (CINs) and accountable care organizations (ACOs)

Her health antitrust practice includes assessing the implications of the formation and operation of competitor collaborations (CINs, ACOs, joint ventures), merger analysis and defense, compliance and ordinary course conduct.

Ashley served as partner-in-charge of the firm’s Health Industry Advisory Practice Group in Chicago from 2015 to 2018 and currently serves on the Firm’s Management Committee.

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• Provided antitrust counsel to hospitals and health systems regarding ongoing conduct matters such as managed care contract provisions, including narrow networks, steering, tiered network, exclusivity, tying and “most favored nation” provisions, economic credentialing, physician conflict of interest and medical staff membership disputes, exclusive services agreements between hospitals and physician groups, the purchase and use of discounted pharmaceuticals under the Nonprofit Institutions Act, integrated delivery systems and vertical integration, and participation in information exchanges
• Developed antitrust compliance policies, programs, firewalls and audits

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• Law & Politics 2009 to 2010, Rising Star
• Nightingale’s Healthcare News 2006, named among Outstanding Healthcare Antitrust Lawyers

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