Tag: Health-care
Price Transparency: Friend or Foe? How Price Transparency May Impact Competition...
The U.S. health care system is in the midst of disruptive changes designed to expand access, improve quality, and lower costs. Price transparency is...
Non-Compete Agreements: Might They be Procompetitive in Healthcare?
There have been recent calls for nationwide bans on non-compete agreements. Such sentiment is no surprise in healthcare, particularly in physician labor markets. And...
US: American Health Lawyers Association’s Antitrust Practice Group has new chair
Aimee E. DeFilippo, a partner in Jones Day’s Antitrust Practice, has been appointed Chair of the Antitrust Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers...
US: Apollo to buy LifePoint Health in US$5.6b deal
Apollo Global Management will buy LifePoint Health in a US$5.6 billion deal that will expand its rural US hospitals business, the latest in a...
Vertical Health-Care Mergers Still in DOJ Crosshairs, Despite ‘Huge’ AT&T-Time Warner...
Posted by Health Care Blog
Vertical Health-Care Mergers Still in DOJ Crosshairs, Despite ‘Huge’ AT&T-Time Warner Loss
By Meg McEvoy
Judge Richard Leon’s opinion in the AT&T-Time Warner...
CVS-Aetna Deal May Hinge on Antitrust Approach Under Trump
Posted by Bloomberg
CVS-Aetna Deal May Hinge on Antitrust Approach Under Trump
By Robert Langreth, David McLaughlin & Zachary Tracer
CVS Health’s US$67.5 billion takeover of Aetna will...
Making Health Care Markets Work: Competition Policy for Health Care
Posted by Social Science Research Network
Making Health Care Markets Work: Competition Policy for Health Care
By Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University), Farzad Mostashari (Aledade) &...
EU/US: Fresenius in talks to buy Akorn
Fresenius, Europe’s biggest publicly traded health-care provider, said Friday that it’s in talks to buy US generic drugmaker Akorn.
While discussions are under way, there’s...
Collusion Among Health Insurers in Chile: Good, Bad, and Ugly Reasons...
Claudio Agostini, Eduardo Saavedra, Manuel Willington, Jul 14, 2010
In 2002 five of the largest Chilean private health insurance providers ("Isapres") reduced the coverage they...