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The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers: A Case Study of the Sutter-Summit Transaction

The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers: A Case Study of the Sutter-Summit Transaction

Federal Trade Commission

Paperback

Health General

ISBN10: 1502493853
ISBN13: 9781502493859
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 25 2014
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.06 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
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.

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