Download or read book Examining Health Care Mergers in Pennsylvania written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining health care mergers in Pennsylvania: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, April 9, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Download or read book Examining Health Care Mergers in Pennsylvania written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examining Health Care Mergers in Pennsylvania written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EXAMINING HEALTH CARE MERGERS IN PENNSYLVANIA HEARING S HEARING 110 90 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY U S SENATE 110TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION written by and published by . This book was released on 2007* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S Hrg 110 90 written by U.S. Government Printing Office (Gpo) and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.
Download or read book Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook written by and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The health care industry continues to undergo unprecedented consolidation. Health care providers and payors alike have pursued a wide variety of integrative strategies to achieve efficiencies or other business advantages. The Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook is designed to educate the practitioner about the antitrust analysis of mergers and acquisitions within the health care industry. Over the past two decades there has been an extraordinary amount of litigation related to challenges of hospital mergers. Each chapter identifies and analyzes important antitrust issues governing such consolidations. Accordingly, the first several chapters are devoted to a detailed treatment of substantive issues peculiar to such mergers: an introduction to hospital merger litigation, describing trends in litigation and the way in which such mergers are analyzed; issues unique to market definition, including product market definition and geographic market definition; the competitive effects of hospital mergers, assessing the evidence necessary to establish a prima facie case in a merger challenge and the rebuttal arguments offered by merging parties; a unique rebuttal argument offered by merging hospitals that is treated separately due to its prominent role in hospital merger litigation - the role and significance of efficiencies in determining the competitive merits of such mergers; the potential applicability of the state action doctrine to hospital mergers. In addition to a substantive treatment of hospital mergers, the Handbook also addresses; combinations of health care management organizations (HMOs) and physician practice groups; the analysis used by the enforcement agencies when reviewing mergers of HMOs; antitrust issues posed by physician practice consolidations. The appendix contains a chart summarizing litigated hospital mergers.--
Download or read book Merger Games written by Judith P. Swazey and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With deepening financial problems, Allegheny Heath, Education and Research Foundation filed for bankruptcy in 1998—in the midst of its landmark merger of The Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. What resulted was another dire event in an escalating disaster. As civil and criminal investigations probed Allegheny's collapse, the survival of the medical school and other health sciences university schools, and the operation of the hospitals hung in the balance. Fortunately, a savior arrived in the form of Drexel University who used this opportunity to create its own medical school. Merger Games is Judith Swazey's gripping account of this historic transaction. Based on extraordinarily detailed first-hand research and continuous inside access to the developments, this book clearly delineates who the players were and what this merger means for the future of medical education and institutional healthcare. Merger Games is a definitive history of one of the most important academic medicine mergers in Philadelphia and the country, which happened at a time when medical care was becoming commodified in almost every state.
Download or read book Examining competition in group health care hearing written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examining Competition in Group Health Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examining the Impact of Health Care Consolidation Statement Before the Committee on Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee U S House of Representatives written by Martin Gaynor and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The U.S. health care system is based on markets. The system will work only as well as the markets that underpin it.• These markets do not function as well as they could, or should. Prices are high and rising, there are incomprehensible and egregious pricing practices, quality is sub-optimal, and the sector is sluggish and unresponsive, in contrast to the innovation and dynamism which characterize much of the rest of our economy.• Lack of competition has a lot to do with these problems.• There has been a great deal of consolidation in health care. There have been 1,519 hospital mergers in the past twenty years, with 680 since 2010. The result is that many local areas are now dominated by one large, powerful health system, e.g., Boston (Partners), Pittsburgh (UPMC), and San Francisco (Sutter).• Insurance markets are also highly consolidated. The two largest insurers have 70 percent of the market or more in one-half of all local insurance markets.• Physician services markets have also become increasingly more concentrated. Two-thirds of specialist physician markets are highly concentrated, and 29 percent for primary care physicians. There have been a very large number of acquisitions of physician practices by hospitals, so much so that 33 percent of all physicians, and 44 percent of primary physicians are now employed by hospitals.• Extensive research evidence shows that consolidation between close competitors leads to substantial price increases for hospitals, insurers, and physicians, without offsetting gains in improved quality or enhanced efficiency. Further, recent evidence shows that mergers between hospitals not in the same geographic area can also lead to increases in price. Just as seriously, if not more, evidence shows that patient quality of care suffers from lack of competition.• This is causing serious harm to patients and to the health care system as a whole.• Policies are needed to support and promote competition in health care markets. This includes policies to strengthen choice and competition, and ending distortions that unintentionally incentivize consolidation.• These include:- Focus and strengthen antitrust enforcement.- End policies that unintentionally incentivize consolidation.- End policies that hamper new competitors and impede competition.- Promote transparency, so employers, policymakers, and consumers have access to information about health care costs and quality.
Download or read book Integrating Healthcare Quality Concerns Into the US Hospital Merger Cases a Mission Impossible written by Theodosia Stavroulaki and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitals merge to constrain costs and improve quality. Although hospital consolidation can yield substantial cost and qualitative efficiencies, it can also harm competition by creating market power. Can the agencies and the courts strike the appropriate balance between the quality improvements a hospital merger brings and the risk of market power? Can they assess the quality improvements stemming from the hospital merger and weigh them against potential anticompetitive harm? And, if yes, how? These questions are not easy. However, this essay raises and examines them. Exploring the seminal US hospital merger cases, it underlines that the agencies, driven by the belief that healthcare is not special, focus more on the mergers' impact on prices and less on quality. It concludes that the agencies, by narrowing their analysis to the price concerns of a hospital merger, disincentivize merging parties from bringing quality of care arguments at the heart of the merger analysis and health policy researchers from developing research examining hospital mergers' impact on quality. It suggests that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should issue guidelines explaining what quality dimensions it values most on the basis of the main objectives of the US healthcare system and how these dimensions can be balanced against harm to competition.
Download or read book Report on the Activities March 31 2009 111 1 Senate Report 111 11 STAR PRINT written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Mergers and Economic Efficiency written by Roger D. Blair and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolidation via merger both from hospital-to-hospital mergers and from hospital acquisitions of physician groups is changing the competitive landscape of the provision of health care delivery in the United States. This Article undertakes a legal and economic examination of a recent Ninth Circuit case examining the hospital acquisition of a physician group. This Article explores the Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Nampa Inc. v. St. Luke's Health System, Ltd. (St. Luke's) decision -- proposing a type of analysis that the district court and Ninth Circuit should have undertaken and that we hope future courts undertake when analyzing mergers in the health care sector. First, the Article addresses the question of how best to frame the acquisition of a physician group by a hospital -- is the merger horizontal, vertical, or potentially both? In undertaking this analysis the Article examines the broader issue of the treatment of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in antitrust law. ACOs are short of full integration and as such, a potential contractual alternative for hospitals and physician groups to an acquisition. A hospital acquisition of a physician practice also has implications for how to view competitive effects in the context of ACOs. Indeed, in St. Luke's the Ninth Circuit suggests that integration short of full merger was a possible alternative. Second, the Article examines the justification for integration as a way to address countervailing power in health care, the reduction of transaction costs, and potential cost and quality efficiencies. Third, the Article applies the economics of these issues to merger case law generally and specifically to the St. Luke's decision. Ultimately, the Article finds the economic analysis of the Ninth Circuit lacking. Finally, the Article offers policy implications of the decision and concludes with some suggestions to improve health care antitrust analysis in practice for litigated cases to make such analysis better follow economic principles.
Download or read book Hospital Mergers and Access to Reproductive Healthcare written by Maureen E. Jerz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mergers Acquisitions and Affiliations of Health Care Institutions written by Pennsylvania Bar Institute and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healthcare Antitrust Settlements and the Federal Trade Commission written by James Langenfeld and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)
Download or read book CIS Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
