A wonderful paper by Ziad Obermeyer, Evan Flack, and Amitabh Chandra. More and more evidence of the harms of badly structured cost sharing

My latest on #pricetransparency high #hospitalprices & a lack of enforcement by FTC “Hospitals Merge For Power, While ‘Price Transparency’ Fantasy Persists” via @forbes forbes.com/sites/michaelm… Zack Cooper AHRQ

Reminder to researchers using Medicare & Medicaid claims data.

CMSGov has an RFI about their proposed data access changes.

They genuinely want to hear about how this could impact you and possible ways forward. Responses are due 5/15.

cms.gov/data-research/…

Just in case anything thinks Formula 1 is cool 😅 Cormac Ryan-Meenan does it again 😱😎✊

Go LJ!!! This is such a neat paper!

'There appears to be underenforcement of antitrust laws in the hospital sector.'
More from this working paper by #EGgrantee (s) Zarek Brot-Goldberg Zack Cooper Stuart Craig + Lev Klarnet on antitrust enforcement in the U.S. hospital sector. ⬇️

equitablegrowth.org/working-papers…

#Competition #FTC

A useful and informative discussion on the level of antitrust enforcement in the US

Antitrust enforcement was once a backwater of health policy, but it's getting renewed attention from policymakers as a tool for addressing high prices.

Prediction #7: “The FTC sets its sights on healthcare monopolies” is coming true after launching a portal to submit complaints for potential investigations into healthcare companies’ monopolistic or anticompetitive practices.
fortune.com/2023/11/14/ai-…
 
fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/fed…

Context here matters: the $1.3 trillion US hospital sector accounts for 6% of national GDP. According to BLS-Labor Statistics data, since 2000, prices in the hospital industry grew faster than prices in any other sector of the economy!!!