Interpreting the 1996 federal antitrust guidelines for physician joint venture networks.

Antitrust Concerns About Evolving Vertical Relationships in Health Care

The greatest challenges faced by any organization are those generated The increasingly complex organizational relationships in the health-care industry are creating new management, marby a dynamic environment. Health-care organizations have faced, and keting, financial, and legal challenges. In 1993, the Federal will continue to face, significant demands imposed by changes in the Trade Commissi...

The MedSouth Joint - (Ad)venture the Antitrust Implications of Virtual Health Care Networks

A Prediction Model of Merger & Acquisitions in the US Telelcommunications Industry

The “1997 Merger Guidelines” articulates the analytical framework that Department of Justice (DoJ ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) use to review merger and acquisition cases. To better apply the guidelines to the M&A cases in telecommunication industry, the authorities and merging companies in telecommunications industry have a need to translate the provisions of the general guidelines to t...

Commentary - Competition Policy after Health Care Reform: Mending Holes in Antitrust Law's Protective Net.

Antitrust law has been characterized as godfather to competition in health care, as landmark cases removed professional restraints of trade and challenged anticompetitive joint ventures and networks that had inhibited market approaches. More recently, antitrust may seem more like an absentee father, as unchecked consolidation over the past fifteen years resulted in markets with dominant provide...

Antitrust, competition, and health care reform.

The goals of health care reform and the antitrust laws are similar: promotion of consumer welfare. Under reform, having large groups of consumers and providers will offer substantial efficiencies in purchasing and providing health care services but also will pose some antitrust risks. Health alliances may have excessive market power. Health plans and provider networks may have the potential to ...