| The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers: A Case Study of the Sutter-Summit Transaction Contributor(s): Federal Trade Commission (Author) |
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ISBN: 1502493853 ISBN-13: 9781502493859 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Health Care Issues |
| Physical Information: 0.06" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.21 lbs) 30 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This consummated merger combined two hospitals located close together in the Oakland-Berkeley region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The greater metropolitan area contained many other hospitals that offered a similar range of services, but which were located farther away. A central issue raised by the Sutter-Summit transaction was whether travel costs were low enough such that these hospitals were a sufficient constraint on the merging parties to prevent an anticompetitive price increase. We use detailed claims data from three large health insurers to compare the post-merger price change for the merging parties to the price change for a set of control group hospitals. Our results show that Summit's price increase was among the largest of any comparable hospital in California, indicating this transaction may have been anticompetitive. |