The authors discuss how differences between patient and insurer perspectives could create “cross-market” effects.
“Cross-market” bodog online casino can be defined as health system bodog online casino, or components of these bodog online casino, that combine providers that are not substitutes from the point of view of patients, but may still cause price increases. Recent actions by the FTC and the California Attorney General reflect growing attention placed on bodog online casino that expand healthcare systems, even when such bodog online casino combine providers that are unlikely to compete for inpatient discharges.
In this article, authors Dina Older Aguilar, Andrew Sfekas, and Arthur Corea-Smith of Cornerstone Research and Shannon Wu of the American Hospital Association discuss the following aspects of cross-market effects:
- the impact of the insurer perspective in standard hospital merger analysis.
- how economic models of insurer behavior can generate potential cross-market effects.
- two types of scenarios in which provider bodog online casino may impact provider-insurer negotiations, without combining hospital systems that patients would consider close substitutes.
This article was originally published in Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle in May 2022.
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