July 1, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Austin FraktThis is a FAQ entry. See the main FAQ index for others.
- Historical FTC and DOJ concern over hospital mergers
- Two posts cite literature that shows hospital concentration increases prices [1, 2]
- The effect of hospital mergers on prices
- Evidence from Oregon
- Evidence from California
- Evidence from Massachusetts
- A qualitative view
- My paper on the balance of insurer-hospital market power
- How market concentration of insurers and hospitals interact
by bulldog on August 22nd, 2011 at 22:31
Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD is already a huge system with 3 large hospitals that has recently embarked on a series of cashless acquisitions, creating a large integrated system of both hospitals and community providers.
I think this will ultimately benefit patients from an integrated system standpoint, but how will it affect costs? The wrinkle, of course, is that MD has an all-payer system. Can all-payer fight back against hospital mergers on cost?
C’mon, you have to blog on this, these are like your guy’s two favorite topics.
Keep up the great work.