Anticompetitive conduct in the healthcare industry is often hard to detect, and has been ignored by some courts that appear to lack an understanding of managed care and its significance in maintaining price competition. These courts have adopted an approach that is far too historical and mechanistic, and is characterized by outdated factors analyzed in isolation from each other. In order to pre...

As the efforts in health care cost-cutting continue to grow, so too does the need to understand their potential impact on the quality of care patients receive. This study uses patient outcome measures as a proxy for hospital quality to investigate what market forces affect them. Preliminary results show that the probability of an adverse outcome depends on market, hospital, and patient characte...

Rapid growth in managed care enrollment is likely to affect clinical research at the nation's academic medical centers (AMCs). Our site visit interviews indicate that managed care has not markedly reduced coverage for research-related care. However, market competition in some areas has limited AMCs' ability to subsidize research activities with clinical revenues. As they gain market share, mana...