Why competition law matters to health care quality

Redefining Competition in Health Care - Harvard Business Review

Poor public-policy choices have contributed to the problem, but so have the bad choices made by health plans, hospitals, and the employers who buy their ...

Hospital consolidation matters - Equitable Growth

By prioritizing the preservation of competition, the transparency of merger and acquisition activities, and equitable access to care, ...

Still (at least) one decade behind: US competition policy in the ...

Most antitrust enforcement actions in the healthcare sector have focused on preventing mergers between hospitals and hospital systems.3 To be ...

Invigorating Competition in Health Care: Is Rate Regulation Needed?

If the nation is going to continue to rely on market competition to deliver a satisfactory blend of cost and quality, health care policy must ...

What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care ...

This is relevant for antitrust policy in the U.S., where there are well established health care markets, and for the evaluation of market ...

Does provider competition improve health care quality and efficiency?

Hospital competition can improve quality in some areas, such as heart attack mortality, but the effect does not systematically translate to ...

Incorporating health care quality into health antitrust law

Quality should be incorporated into the antitrust analysis. When mergers lead to higher prices and lower quality, thus lower social welfare, the ...

Ten Things to Know About Consolidation in Health Care Provider ...

... and quality, and proposals to address consolidation and increase competition ... and policy options for increasing competition. This brief ...

Does provider competition improve health care quality and efficiency?

But the key issues related to patient choice and provider competition remain the same. Policy-makers can support public reporting to facilitate patient choice ...

Theodosia Stavroulaki, Healthcare, Quality Concerns and ...

The relationship between competition law and healthcare continues to attract attention among various groups, from policymakers inside and outside government.

Healthcare, Quality Concerns and Competition Law

Drawing on UK, US and EU examples, it explores antitrust and merger cases in hospital, medical and health insurance markets to give an accurate ...

Beyond Antitrust: Health Care And Health Insurance Market Trends ...

Government antitrust enforcement could play an important role in maintaining competition in both the hospital and insurer markets, but in many markets, the ...

Five Reasons Why Health Care Quality Research Hasn't Affected ...

Research on health care quality has become increasingly sophisticated, but the research has not had a major impact on competition law and policy.

Competition in health care: lessons from the English experience

The United States has competition (and patient choice) on both sides of the market. Insurers compete for corporate and individual buyers and negotiate with ...

Competition health: two years on - ACCC

Some have questioned the Commission's approach to enforcing the law in relation to health. These questions are on the basis that things like quality of service ...

Competition in Health Care: More Choices, Better Quality, and…

Every American deserves access to affordable, comprehensive, high-quality coverage and care. But health care prices and costs continue to ...

Preventing Anticompetitive Contracting Practices in Healthcare ...

Competition Law Matters to Health Care Quality, 22 HEALTH AFF. 31, 36–37 (2003) (“. . . competition law concluded that, in part for quality ...

Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets - Now Publishers

As a consequence, antitrust enforcement is a significant component of health care policy. This industry is also one in which competition is a real issue, given ...

Collusion & Competition: What Antitrust Means for AI in Health Care

Health care companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to create innovations, set prices, and compete with rivals.

Health Care Needs Real Competition - Harvard Business Review

Yet providers and payers continue to try to stymie competition. Many are actively pursuing consolidation, buying up market share and increasing their bargaining ...