Tag: ACOs
In Search of Antitrust Guidance and Safe Harbors for Accountable Care...
Gregory Pelnar, Mar 30, 2011
An Accountable Care Organization ("ACO") is "an organization of health care providers that agrees to be accountable for the quality,...
U.S. Antitrust 2025: How Have We Handled The Bulletproof Cartels?
Kent Bernard, Dec 16, 2010
There is a tendency, especially among those of us who count ourselves as antitrust lawyers or economists, to think that...
Antitrust Implications of Clinically-Integrated Managed Care Contracting Networks and Accountable Care...
Ashley Fischer, David Marx, Oct 11, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA") established various mechanisms to make healthcare providers more accountable for...
Are Clinically Integrated Physician Networks Candy-Coated Cartels?
Gregory Pelnar, Oct 11, 2010
Are "clinically integrated" physician networks that jointly contract with third-party payors such as Blue Cross little more than "candy-coated" cartels?...
The Interplay Between Competition and Clinical Integration: Why the Antitrust Agencies...
Gregory Vistnes, Oct 11, 2010
The Affordable Care Act provides for the formation of Accountable Care Organizations ("ACOs"). These ACOs will be composed of health...
Clinical Integration: The Balancing of Competition and Health Care Policies
Christi Braun, Oct 11, 2010
The reason that clinical integration is a topic on which the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and the Department of Justice...
