Antitrust, Competition, and Health Care Reform

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Prologue: The American health care system is moving rapidly into an era in which hospitals, physicians, and other providers of medical services are combining into a variety of larger organ- izational forms. The momentum for this consolidation results largely from the demands of third-party payers for relief from ever-rising health care costs and the realization by many provid- ers of the need to make a successful trunsition to this new world, which is usually characterized us "managed competi- tion." The introduction of the Clinton administration's health care reform proposal, which encourages collaboration by provid- ers, is accelerating market reform. As these new forms take shape and, in many instances, accumulate market power, attor- neys Robert Bloch and Donald Falk emphasize in this paper that antitrust issues will rapidly emerge us "extremely impor- tant" in defining the relationships between the major stakehold- ers. Bloch is a partner in the Washington law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt, where the principal areas of his practice are antitrust law, health care law, and the defense of individuals and corporations accused of white-collar crime. Before joining the firm this year, Bloch worked for seventeen years us an attor- ney in the Department of Justice. His last of several senior-level positions was as chief of the Professions and Intellectual Prop- erty Section, where he was responsible for supervising the inves- tigation and prosecution of civil and criminal antitrust violations concerning the health care industry, the professions, and several other industries. Donald Falk is an associate at the same firm, specializing in appellate, general litigation, and antitrust mat- ters. Previously, he worked us a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Gins burg of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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