Healthcare Policy

Research results from Northwestern University update knowledge of healthcare policy

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, November 12th, 2009

"In recent years, federal courts have permitted hospital consolidations and other potentially anticompetitive actions by accepting hospitals' claims that they compete in expansive geographic markets. Recent events, including two actions by the U. S. Federal Trade Commission, suggest that antitrust is undergoing a sea change, thanks in part to new methods for defining geographic markets," scientists in the United States report.

"This article reviews the recent history of hospital antitrust, describes the methods used to define markets, and illustrates the new methods by considering two consolidations recently proposed by a New York regulatory agency. The new methods for...

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2009-11-12)

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