Physician Group and Healthcare Facility Merger Study
On January 14, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered six insurance companies to provide information that will allow the agency to study the effects of consummated physician group and healthcare facility mergers that occurred from 2015 through 2020. The studies that the FTC’s Bureau of Economics (BE) will conduct with this data will add to BE’s already substantial body of research analyzing the competitive consequences of mergers via...