Antitrust enforcement encourages health care providers to cooperate procompetitively.
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A review of significant administrative and judicial rulings in antitrust law during 1993 shows that the antitrust laws should not impede innovative, cost-cutting cooperative arrangements among providers, so long as their actual or potential procompetitive benefits are not outweighed by their anticompetitive effects.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Annals of health law
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994