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NJ Hospital Assoc. Amicus Brief: FTC v. Hackensack Meridian Health, Inc. and Englewood Healthcare Foundation
Amicus Brief: NJ Hospital Association Re: Federal Trade Commission V. Hackensack Meridian Health, Inc. and Englewood Healthcare Foundation
AHA, AAMC Amicus Brief: Federal Trade Commission vs Hackensack Meridian Health, Inc, Et Al
INTRODUCTION
The FTC’s approach to defining the relevant geographic market in this case conflicts with settled law and economic principles, as well as business reality.
Study: Rural hospital mergers linked to better patient outcomes
In a study reported in JAMA Network Open, rural hospital mergers were associated with lower mortality for patients admitted to the hospital for heart attack, heart failure, stroke and pneumonia.
DOJ and FTC Investigations of Employee “No-Poach Agreements”
This Legal Advisory provides in-depth analysis of the DOJ’s and FTC’s policies and insights on how the hospital sector should respond and reduce their risks of prosecutions of no-poach agreements.
Hospital Merger Benefits: An Econometric Analysis Revisited
In this report we revisit our econometric analysis and include two additional years of data for 2018 and 2019 on cost, quality, and revenue outcomes from hospital transactions. The addition of these data allows us to measure the effects of 144 additional hospital acquisitions and also allows us to measure the effects of the hospital acquisitions we had previously included in our studies over a longer period of time.
Hospital Merger Benefits: An Econometric Analysis Revisited Executive Summary
This is the third analysis by Charles River Associates (CRA) showing that recent hospital acquisitions reduce costs and lead to improved performance on important quality indicators without an increase in revenue that may signal enhanced market power. All three analyses found that hospital acquisitions can generate substantial benefits.
AHA Letter to White House, HHS, DOJ, and FTC on Study of Benefits of Hospital Mergers with Attachments
President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy called upon all agencies of the federal government to protect and promote fair competition throughout the economy. Achieving that objective will require each agency to assess fairly the activities of those fields and industries that fall within its purview.
AHA Letter to White House, HHS, DOJ, and FTC on Study of Benefits of Hospital Mergers
President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy called upon all agencies of the federal government to protect and promote fair competition throughout the economy. Achieving that objective will require each agency to assess fairly the activities of those fields and industries that fall within its purview.
Anticompetitive Conduct by Commercial Health Insurance Companies
Passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and, most recently, the repeal of the industry’s McCarran-Ferguson antitrust protection should be a catalyst for a more scrutiny by the federal antitrust and other federal agencies. And, as strongly suggested by the American Medical Association’s report that more than 74% of commercial health insurance markets are concentrated, scrutiny should include a retrospective investigation into the industry’s consolidation.
AHA continues to voice concerns over proposed UnitedHealth Group acquisition of Change Healthcare
AHA yesterday sent a letter to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division expressing its serious concern with the adequacy of any remedy to resolve the anticompetitive impact of UnitedHealth Gr