Overview

Ashley Fischer advises clients across all sectors of the health industry on antitrust matters involving:

M&A transactions
Competitor collaborations and joint ventures
Conduct

Her health antitrust practice includes counseling and defense of investigations and claims.

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.

Results

Successfully defended hospital merger investigations of in-market competitors
Counseled nearly four dozen provider contracting networks (CINs, ACOs, IPAs, PHOs) on their formation and operation, including antitrust implications of the sufficiency of integration of programs of clinical integration and substantial financial risk sharing, ancillarity of joint contracting and size of network, messenger-model compliance, value-based payor contracts, shared savings models and hospital-efficiency contracts, and Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) requirements
Successfully defended antitrust enforcement agency investigations of provider contracting networks

Advised competitor collaborations and joint ventures, including quality and/or cost-sharing initiatives, joint purchasing arrangements, co-marketing arrangements, information exchanges and trade associations regarding their formation and operation
Successfully defended antitrust claims brought by physicians against health systems
Counseled clients across all sectors of the health industry regarding ongoing conduct matters such as those involving vertical integration, distribution, restrictive covenants, exclusivity arrangements, restrictive payor contract provisions (narrow networks, steering, tiered network, exclusivity, tying and “most favored nation” provisions) and economic credentialing
Developed antitrust compliance policies, programs, firewalls and audits for clients across all sectors of the health industry

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Recognitions

BTI Client Service All-Star 2019
Chambers USA 2017 to 2019
The Best Lawyers in America 2015 to 2020
Illinois Super Lawyers 2016 to 2019
Crain’s Chicago Business Notable GenX Leader 2019

Acritas Stars 2019
Law & Politics Rising Star 2009 to 2010
Nightingale’s Healthcare News Outstanding Healthcare Antitrust Lawyer 2006

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Community

American Health Lawyers Association, Antitrust Practice Group Vice Chair
American Bar Association, Antitrust Section, Health Care Committee Recent Developments, former editor