Tag Archives: Competition
States may hold final sway in proposed megamergers
FTC Rejects Another Health System M&A
http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=HEP&content_id=323594
The Federal Trade Commission’s administrative complaint says the merger would create a dominant provider of general acute care inpatient services sold to commercial health plans in a four-county region of south-central Pennsylvania.
We’re Still Not Talking About Health Care’s ‘Elephant in the Room’
Critics seek hard look at Yale–L+M deal, hospital market power
Hershey-PinnacleHealth: Will they fight or back down from the FTC?
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2015/12/hershey_pinnacle_penn_state_me.html
The FTC typically takes such actions when it concludes a merger will hurt competition in a market and is likely to result in higher prices for consumers. A wave of consolidation has been sweeping the health care industry, and the FTC has shown increasing concern.
How Might Proposed Payer Mergers Impact State Insurance Markets?
Marshall J. Seidman Lecture in Health Policy
Cartoon – Competition
‘I wouldn’t put much faith into Senator Bludgeon’s promise to immediately begin investigating the competition. After all, it takes 30 days just to make instant coffee in the Senate.’
HENRY KOTULA 