Exclusivity and the Antitrust Issues it Raises for ACOs
ABA Antitrust Health Care Chronicle
8/2011
Christi J. Braun
"The value of competition among healthcare providers and their Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) is expressly recognized not only in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) regulations, but also in the guidance that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) recently issued."
In this article, "Exclusivity and the Antitrust Issues it Raises for ACOs," published in the August 2011 issue of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Health Care Chronicle, Mintz Levin attorney Christi J. Braun outlines the issue of exclusivity in the context of ACO creation, and the many agencies' concerns over ACO dominance in the market place.
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