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... of America . Vol. 49 , pp. 781 -811. Clarke , R. N. , and L. Schyavitz. 1983 . Strategies for a Crowded Marketplace. Health Care Management Review 8 ( 3 ): 45 -51. Coddington , D. C. , L. E. Palmquist, and W. V. Trollinger. 1985 . Strategies for Survival in the Hospital Industry...

...William D. White David M. Cutler, ed. The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions . National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,2000. 384 pp. $53.00. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

...Gloria J. Bazzoli; David Marx, Jr.; Richard J. Arnould; Larry M. Manheim We examine the implications of the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines for the hospital industry and subsequent policy statements that were developed for health care providers. Application of antitrust policy to hospitals has...

...Christopher J. Conover; Frank A. Sloan This study assesses the impact of certificate-of-need (CON) regulation for hospitals on various measures of health spending per capita, hospital supply, diffusion of technology, and hospital industry organization. Using a time series cross-sectional...

...David A. Pearson; David S. Abernethy In April 1977, the Administration's Hospital Cost Containment Act was introduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Reaction to the proposal on the part of the hospital industry was immediate and generally negative. The congressional response has...

...Allan N. Johnson; David Aquilina The Healthcare Educational and Research Foundation (HERF) in Minneapolis undertook a two-year research project to study the effects of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and competition on the hospital industry in Minneapolis/St. Paul. This article summarizes...

.... Convinced that it was reasoning from legal principles, the Revenue Service accepted the hospital industry's view of the history and purpose of hospitals. The federal courts further obscured the problem. Moreover, the Revenue Service took no interest in the effects of its ruling on the services provided...

...Erwin A. Blackstone; Joseph P. Fuhr, Jr. The hospital industry has recently experienced substantial merger activity. This paper examines several actual and proposed hospital mergers to determine the extent of competition in the affected markets and the effect these mergers may have on competition...

... and long-lasting. The hospitals that exit from the market may be forced out as a result of their location or payor mix, and not as a consequence of their inefficiency. Allowing capital formation in the hospital industry to be determined by the market criteria of bottom-line performance may lead...

...Michael D. Rosko; Robert W. Broyles; William E. Aaronson This article evaluates the potential efficacy of implementing a prospective payment system based on case mix in the nursing home industry. The analysis of structural differences between the nursing home and hospital industries suggests...

... to judges and juries holding views of hospital markets as being different from markets for other goods and services. My conclusion is that hospitals are an industry with unique attributes, but nothing about the specifics of the health care industry suggests that the unregulated use of market power...

..., is derived from misguided attempts to apply the economic assumptions of for-profit industries to the nonprofit hospital sector and to extend statutes enacted to restrain national economic concentration to local nonprofit enterprises. This paper concludes that a rational antitrust enforcement policy...

...-cap plan, the hospital industry’s voluntary effort to hold down costs collapsed: annual rates of increase in hospital spending have climbed toward 20 percent, even as the general consumer price index slowed to single digit increases; and the federal health budget (of which Medicare takes...

...W. P. Welch There are two types of HMOs: prepaid group practices (PGPs) and individual practice associations (IP As). Because of rapid change in the HMO industry, the academic literature, which is based primarily on data from the 1970s, is dated in several ways. The literature has focused on PGPs...

... regulation that infringe on the decision-making powers of individuals and firms. Regulatory Regimes and the Politics of Hospital Reimbursement The relationship between state governments and the hospital industry falls into three distinct patterns, or regimes, which are biased either in favor...

.... 1978 . Measuring Hospital Performance. Chicago, IL: Blue Cross Association. Herfindahl , O. C. 1950 . Concentration in the U.S. Steel Industry. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University. Hirschman , A. 1945 . National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade. Berkeley: University...

... of medical care topics, he is currently completing a study on the competitive effects of HMOs on the hospital industry in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Donald R. Cohodes (Sc.D., Health Services Administration, Harvard) is the Executive Director, Policy for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. He has...

... to the Healthcare Industry: The Interweaving of Empirical and Normative Issues. Indiana Law Review 31 : 92 -117. Capps, C., D. Dranove, S. Greenstein, and M. Satterthwaite. 2001 . The Silent Majority Fallacy of the Elzinga-Hogarty Criteria: A Critique and New Approach to Analyzing Hospital Mergers...

...’ recommendations appear to be in- sufficient. They advise against developing merger guidelines specifically for the hospital industry and recommend, instead, measures to increase merger review efficiency. The authors’ assessment of the policy and prac- tical problems inherent in devising and implementing...

... to the people of North Carolina, and especially to those who are, have been, or will be patients in one of our hospitals. But what is the current state of the hospital industry, and where is it headed? Expenditures for health services have reached an alarming portion of the gross national product...