TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gaynor,Martin
AU  - Vogt,William B.
TI  - Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7112
PY  - 1999
Y2  - May 1999
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7112
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7112.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Martin Gaynor
Heinz College
Carnegie Mellon University
4800 Forbes Avenue,,Room 3008
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Tel: 412/268-7933
Fax: 412/268-5338
E-Mail: mgaynor@cmu.edu

William B. Vogt
513 Brooks Hall
Department of Economics
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Athens, GA  30602
Tel: 706-542-3970
Fax: 706-542-3376
E-Mail: william.b.vogt@gmail.com
AB  - In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets.  The paper begins with a brief review of antitrust legislation.  We then discuss whether and how health care is different from other industries in ways that might affect the optimality of competition.  The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure.  In each of these sections we review the relevant antitrust cases, discuss the issues that have arisen in those cases, and then review the relevant economics literature and suggest some new methods for analyzing these issues.
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