...Neville Doherty Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Competition in the Provision of Dental Services-Impacts on Providers and Consumers: An Introduction Neville Doherty, University of Connecticut Health Center...

...Douglas A. Conrad; Marie L. Emerson This article analyzes the effects of state dental practice acts on competition in the market for dental services. Three types of practice act provisions are examined: (1) restraints on advertising and soliciting of patients; (2) limits on scope of practice...

...William J. Lynk Legislation to enact the “Consumer Choice Health Plan” is promoted as a step toward competition and away from regulation. This characterization is misleading. The tax provisions in this plan include potentially beneficial reforms, but have offsetting effects that impair economic...

...Thomas Rice; Brian Biles; E. Richard Brown; Finn Diderichsen; Hagen Kuehn Reconsidering the Role of Competition in Health Care Markets: Introduction Thomas Rice University of California, Los Angeles...

...Donald W. Light Commentary Sociological Perspectives on Competition in Health Care Donald W. Light University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey...

...Jacqueline S. Zinn This article identifies factors influencing the degree of competition in the nursing home market. Using data obtained from the 1987 Medicare and Medicaid Automated Certification Survey, the relationship between competition and structural and process measures of quality...

...Colleen M. Grogan Abstract This introductory essay to JHPPL 's special issue on accountable care organizations (ACOs) presents the broader themes addressed in the issue, including (1) a central tension between cooperation versus competition in health care markets with regard to how to bring about...

...Deborah L. Feinstein; Patrick Kuhlmann; Peter J. Mucchetti Abstract The antitrust laws stand to protect consumers of health care services from conduct that would raise prices, lower quality, and decrease innovation by lessening competition. Importantly, though, vigorous antitrust enforcement does...

...Thomas L. Greaney Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Antitrust law has been characterized as godfather to competition in health care, as landmark cases removed professional restraints of trade and challenged anticompetitive joint ventures and networks that had inhibited market...

...W. Richard Scott James C. Robinson. The Corporate Practice of Medicine: Competition and Innovation in Health Care. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 273 pp. $45.00 cloth; $18.95 paper. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Nelson, Richard R., and Sidney G. Winter. 1982...

...Carl G. Homer This paper examines four propositions inherent in competitive approaches to containing the growth of health care expenditures: (1) that health maintenance organizations can deliver health care less expensively than the fee-for-service system; (2) that under certain competitive...

...Ronald C. Lippincott; James W. Begun Viewed from a historical (and a theoretical) perspective, current “pro-competition” policy proposals are unbalanced in their emphasis on promoting “free market” behavior by consumers rather than by suppliers in the health services market. A comprehensive...

...Donald R. Cohodes In the past two years, the regulation/competition dialogue has polarized into an “either or” debate. The problems facing our health care system are too complex to allow the acceptance of this paradigm. Reasonable people will differ on what they believe are the key factors which...

.... Alexander McMahon, Uwe Reinhardt, Karen Davis, and Paul Ellwood-were given on the first day. The second day focused on one of the unresolved issues in the competitive proposals: their impact on teach- ing hospitals. John Colloton’s paper on competition and teaching hospitals was followed...

...Robert E. Schlenker; Nancy H. Shanks This paper reviews the historical trends in the regulatory and competitive approaches to containment of health care costs, covering efforts in both public and private sectors. The current interest in the potential of private-sector initiatives to stimulate...

... and Information Branch. 1984b . National Health Expenditures in Canada 1970–82. Ottawa, ON: HWC. Holahan , John , and William. 1978 . Price Controls, Physician Fees, and Physician Incomes from Medicare and Medicaid. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. McCarthy , Thomas R. 1985 . The Competitive...

...H. E. Frech, III; Paul B. Ginsburg This paper updates our 1977 study of health insurance competition. We find that insurers are now far more willing to compete by controlling costs. Large consumer copayments and insurer utilization controls, once deemed politically in-feasible, have become...

...Alain Enthoven The markets for health insurance and health care are not naturally competitive: they are susceptible to many forms of market failure. Health plans and consumers may use strategies that lead to inequity and inefficiency. But experience with successful models of competition suggests...

...Christine E. Bishop The competitive model may fit the nursing home sector better than it fits other health care markets, but Medicaid subsidies and regulation have not allowed the market to work freely, and nursing home insurance may cause further divergence from a competitive ideal. Incentives...

... financial sustainability, member states are employing market-based mechanisms to finance, manage, and provide health care. However, the introduction of elements of competition is constrained by the application of EU competition law, which raises significant concerns regarding the applicability...