Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets / Martin Gaynor, William B. Vogt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaynor, Martin.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Vogt, William B.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7112.

NBER working paper series no. w7112

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1999.

Summary:

In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a brief review of antitrust legislation. We then discuss whether and how health care is different from other industries in ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant antitrust cases, discuss the issues that have arisen in those cases, and then review the relevant economics literature and suggest some new methods for analyzing these issues.

Notes:

Print version record

May 1999.