Fierce Healthcare December 8, 2021
A recent review shows that states with stronger antitrust laws were more likely than others to flex those powers and challenge hospital mergers, yet they were still generally unsuccessful in limiting consolidation and higher prices.
Across the 862 mergers proposed during the 2010s, 42 (4.9%) were challenged by states and the Federal Trade Commission, and 35 (4.1%) of those were challenged by states alone, researchers wrote this week in Health Affairs.
Among them, 25 of the challenges were headed by eight states the researchers determined to have the most robust merger review authority, according to the analysis. Two of those 25 mergers were blocked, and three were abandoned.
“States could play a critically important role in addressing poorly functioning hospital...
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