The competitive effects of not-for-profit hospital mergers a case study
Author: Michael G. Vita
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1428958452
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The Competitive Effects of Not-for-profit Hospital Mergers
The Quality Effects of Hospital Mergers
The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers
Author: Federal Trade Commission
Publisher:
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781502493859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This consummated merger combined two hospitals located close together in the Oakland-Berkeley region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The greater metropolitan area contained many other hospitals that offered a similar range of services, but which were located farther away. A central issue raised by the Sutter-Summit transaction was whether travel costs were low enough such that these hospitals were a sufficient constraint on the merging parties to prevent an anticompetitive price increase. We use detailed claims data from three large health insurers to compare the post-merger price change for the merging parties to the price change for a set of control group hospitals. Our results show that Summit's price increase was among the largest of any comparable hospital in California, indicating this transaction may have been anticompetitive.
The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers
Healthcare Antitrust, Settlements, and the Federal Trade Commission
Author: James Langenfeld
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1787566005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of Research in Law and Economics contains articles that address important legal and economic developments in the areas of healthcare, intellectual property and labor settlements, competitive effects, cartel overcharges, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Handbook of Law and Economics
Author: A. Mitchell Polinsky
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2007-11-07
Total Pages: 981
ISBN-13: 0080554237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions — for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists. Moreover, given the importance of law to the welfare of societies, the economic analysis of law merits prominent treatment as a subdiscipline of economics. This two volume Handbook is intended to foster the study of the legal system by economists. *The two volumes form a comprehensive and accessible survey of the current state of the field. *Chapters prepared by leading specialists of the area. *Summarizes received results as well as new developments.
Energy Markets
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
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Managed Care and Monopoly Power
Author: Deborah HAAS-WILSON
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0674038118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase in health care costs is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals, as the health care sector undergoes reorganization and consolidation. There are two tools to limit the growth of monopoly power: government regulation and antitrust policy. In this timely book, Deborah Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of the antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases. Focusing on the economic concepts necessary to the enforcement of the antitrust laws in health care markets, Haas-Wilson provides a useful roadmap for guiding the future of these markets.
