Anti-Trust and Health Care Conference: Assessing Issues for California and the United States

Hospitals and Related Markets

Federal Trade Commission (1996) Revised Federal Trade Commission
"Department of Justice Policy Statements on Health Care Antitrust Reinforcement"
US Department of Justice: Washington D.C.
Feldman, Roger, Douglas Wholey, and Jon Christianson (1999)
"HMO Consolidations: How National Mergers Affect Local Markets"
Health Affairs 18(4): 96-104.
Alison Evans Cuellar and Paul J. Gertler (2003)
"Trends in Hospital Consolidation: The Formation of Local Systems"
Health Affairs, November/December 22(6): 77-87.
Jean Abraham, Ashish Arora, Martin Gaynor, and Douglas Wholey (2000)
"Enter at Your Own Risk: HMO Participation and Enrollment in the Medicare Risk Market"
Economic Inquiry, 38, 3, 385-401.

Frech, H.E. and K.L. Danger (1998)
"Exclusive Contracts between Hospitals and Physicians: the Antitrust Issues"
Health Economics, 7:175-178.
Schneider, John, Pengxiang Li, Timothy Brown, and Richard Scheffler (2003)
"Physician Market Concentration and Antitrust"
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Gaynor, Martin and Willian B. Vogt (2000)
"Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets"
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Shortell, Stephen M and Edward F. X. Hughes. (1988)
"The Effect of Regulation, Competition, and Ownership on Mortality Rates among Hospital Inpatients"
New England Journal of Medicine 318, no. 17, April: 1100-07.
William M. Sage, David A. Hyman, and Warren Greenberg (2003)
"Why Competition Law Matters to Health Care Quality"
Health Affairs, March/April 22(2): 31-44.
Bazzoli, Gloria et al. (1995)
"Federal Antitrust Merger Enforcement Standards: A Good Fit for the Hospital Industry?"
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Spring, 20(1): 137-169.
Vistnes, Gregory (1995)
"Hospital Mergers and Antitrust Enforcement"
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Spring, 20(1):175-190.
Gaynor, Martin and Deborah Haas-Wilson (1999)
"Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets"
Journal of Economic Perspectives 13:141-164.
Gaynor, Martin, Deborah Haas-Wilson, and William B. Vogt (2000)
"Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, and the 2nd Best in Health Care Markets"
Journal of Political Economy, October, 108: 5.

Peter J. Hammer and William M. Sage (2003)
"Critical Issues in Hospital Antitrust Law"
Health Affairs, November/December 22(6): 88-100.
Thomas L. Greaney (2002)
"Whither Antitrust? The Uncertain Future of Competition Law in Health Care"
Health Affairs, March/April, 21(2): 185-196.
Alain C. Enthoven (2004)
"Market Forces and Efficient Health Care Systems"
Health Affairs, March/April 23(2): 25-27.
Foreman, S.E., J.A. Wilson and R.M. Scheffler (1996),
"Monopoly, Monopsony, and Contestability in Health Insurance: a Study of Blue Cross Plans"
Economic Inquiry, 34: 662-677.