Big changes are coming in antitrust law. The FTC and DOJ Antitrust Division have significantly increased enforcement against noncompete, nonsolicitation, and no-poach agreements. The agencies have proposed a reworking of the premerger notification process and a rehaul of the merger guidelines.

Matthew Hans, a business attorney in the firm's St. Louis and Washington, D.C. office, discusses how health care organizations can navigate these changes.