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Increasing consolidation in healthcare markets: what are the antitrust policy implications?

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To discuss the implications of the rapid transformation of the healthcare financing and delivery system for competition, social welfare, and antitrust policy. PRINCIPAL FINDING: Horizontal and vertical consolidations can enhance efficiency but can also be anticompetitive in markets characterized by entry barriers. RECOMMENDATION: Active enforcement of the antitrust laws is essential to ensure that competition in healthcare markets will lead to procompetitive, rather than anticompetitive effects. However, healthcare antitrust enforcement policy must be flexible enough to allow efficient new forms of organization and practice to emerge.

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Year: 1998 PMID： 9865226 PMCID： PMC1070326

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Health Serv Res ISSN： 0017-9124 Impact factor: 3.402

7 in total

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Authors: L Scott
Journal: Mod Healthc Date: 1996-08-05

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Authors: J C Robinson
Journal: Health Aff (Millwood) Date: 1996 Impact factor: 6.301

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Authors: R A Connor; R D Feldman; B E Dowd; T A Radcliff
Journal: Health Aff (Millwood) Date: 1997 Nov-Dec Impact factor: 6.301

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Authors: D Haas-Wilson; M Gaynor
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Authors: R E Bloch; D M Falk
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Authors: R L Ludke; G S Levitz
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7. Evaluation of the Medicare competition demonstrations.

Authors: K M Langwell; J P Hadley
Journal: Health Care Financ Rev Date: 1989

7 in total

6 in total

Increasing consolidation in healthcare markets: what are the antitrust policy implications?

1. Will we like tomorrow's giants?

2. The dynamics and limits of corporate growth in health care.

3. Which types of hospital mergers save consumers money?

Review 4. Physician networks and their implications for competition in health care markets.

5. Antitrust, competition, and health care reform.

6. Referring physicians: the forgotten market.

7. Evaluation of the Medicare competition demonstrations.

1. Measuring competition in health care markets.

Review 2. Studying the effects of health plan competition: are available data resources up to the task?

3. Hospitals' negotiating leverage with health plans: how and why has it changed?

4. The effect of physician and health plan market concentration on prices in commercial health insurance markets.

5. Does competition improve health care quality?

6. Hospital-physician affiliations and patient treatments, expenditures, and outcomes.