Healthcare Consolidation
September Articles and Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor October 1, 2014
With the end of summer and school in full swing, September brought us a wide range of interesting articles and reports. This month, the Roundup will highlight seven articles and one report on a range of topics, but there were many to choose from, so check out The Source –Perspectives-Articles and Reports to see what else we picked up! Narrow Networks Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight posted an NBER Working Paper, Controlling Health Care Costs Through Limited Network Insurance Plans: Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees, which examines the growing trend …
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Academic Articles and Reports Roundup July 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor August 5, 2014
July was a slower month in terms of volume of reports and articles being published, but nonetheless, some very important pieces came out. So check them out! Shaudi Bazzaz and Suzanne Delbanco for Catalyst for Payment Reform issued their latest report – State Policies on Provider Market Power. Members of the Source team contributed research and legal analysis to the development of this report. The report provides information on state legislation, regulation and other efforts to promote competition in healthcare for all fifty states. The report also provides information on …
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Academic Articles and Reports Roundup: June 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor June 30, 2014
Articles and Reports Round Up: June 2014 Greetings! In this installment of the Articles and Reports Round Up are the Source’s pick reads from the academic literature and policy reports from June 2014. Academic Articles Health Affairs’ June issue, titled The Economics of Health Care: Costs, Savings, and Value (be still our hearts), had two lead articles on healthcare consolidation and costs (Ginsburg and Pawlson, and Sage) followed by two commentaries. All four are well worth reading. Paul Ginsburg and Gregory Pawlson’s article, Seeking Lower Prices Where Providers Are Consolidated: An …
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Recent Trends in Legislation and Regulation
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 6, 2014
As the “laboratories of democracy,” the states play a major role in creating new laws and shaping public policy on important issues, including those related to healthcare costs and competition. Our Legislation/Regulation page provides various ways to research and track recent happenings in the legislative and regulatory arena. Our state-by-state map displays new regulatory and legislative developments, and these developments can be further explored by viewing the documents below the map, which are organized by topic, including by specific type of statute. Also, The Source Blog will take you through …
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What Academics & Policy Analysts are Saying About Healthcare Cost and Competition
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 5, 2014
In this inaugural Academic Articles and Reports Roundup, we highlight some of the most relevant academic articles and reports on healthcare cost and competition published since January 2014. Going forward, we will publish a Roundup each month to highlight the “must read” articles and reports from that month. The Academic Articles and Reports pages on the site also have links to relevant articles and reports dating back to January 2013. Academic Articles In this issue of the Academic Roundup, we first highlight two health services research articles and one …
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Antitrust in Healthcare: Enforcement & Litigation Cases and Trends
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 5, 2014
The Source’s focus on healthcare competition includes collecting and reporting on antitrust litigation and enforcement activity in the sector. We follow state and federal enforcement efforts by attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, as well as private actions brought by individuals and classes of plaintiffs. The Litigation/Enforcement page contains three main sections: (1) the federal merger enforcement timeline|(2) the state-by-state map of recent and ongoing litigation and enforcement activity|and (3) documents including case summaries, litigation documents, news articles, press releases, and more, organized by topic/case. We …
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In re Evanston Northwestern: Plaintiff Class Certified Following the FTC’s Succesful Challenge to a Consumated Hospital Merger
Source Fellow March 8, 2014
By: Cameron Halling In re Evanston Northwestern, currently pending in federal district court in the Northern District of Illinois, represents the first private class action antitrust lawsuit brought as a result of a hospital merger. At issue in Evanston is the 2000 acquisition of Highland Park Hospital by rival Evanston Northwestern HealthCare Corp. Four years after the completion of the merger, the FTC filed a retroactive administrative complaint, alleging that the merger had significantly lessened competition for general acute care hospital services in Chicago’s north shore area. See FTC Press …
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