Improving healthcare : a dose of competition : a report by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice (July, 2004), with various supplementary materials

improving Healthcare: A Dose Of Competition Systematically Examines The American Health Care System From A Competition-oriented Perspective. The Volume Surveys The Performance Of Each Major Sector Of The Health Care System, And Identifies Impediments To More Effective Competition. Improving Healthcare Examines Such Issues As Competition V. Regulation, Public And Private Sector Approaches To Health Care Financing, Cross-subsidies, Licensure, Provider Market Concentration, Financial And Clinical Integration, Payment For Performance, Quality, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Direct-to-consumer Advertising Of Pharmaceuticals, Certificates Of Need, Mandates, Unionization, The Significance Of Organizational Status (nonprofit V. For-profit), And The Role Of Antitrust And Consumer Protection In Health Care. It Offers Concrete Recommendations To Improve The Quality And Cost-effectiveness Of The American Health Care Marketplace. Executive Summary....Pages 1-29 Overview/Background....Pages 31-75 Industry Snapshot and Competition Law: Physicians....Pages 77-120 Industry Snapshot: Hospitals....Pages 121-162 Competition Law: Hospitals....Pages 163-211 Industry Snapshot: Insurance and Other Third Party Payment Programs....Pages 213-244 Chapter 6: Competition Law: Insurers....Pages 245-278 Industry Snapshot and Competition Law: Pharmaceuticals....Pages 279-302 Miscellaneous Subjects....Pages 303-324 "Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition systematically examines the American health care system from a competition-oriented perspective. The volume surveys the performance of each major sector of the health care system, and identifies impediments to more effective competition. Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition offers concrete recommendations to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the American health care marketplace."--Jacket