Health Information Antitrust Aspects of Health Information Sharing By Public and Private Health Insurers
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Burke is Assistant Research Professor, Department of Health Policy, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Cartwright-Smith is Assistant Research Professor, Pereira is Senior Research Professor, and Rosenbaum is Hirsh Professor and Chair, GWU's Department of Health Policy. The authors wish to thank Robert Leibenluft, Esq., for his extremely helpful comments in preparing this analysis.
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