A developing economic literature focuses on price effects from mergers between non-competing hospitals. “Cross-market” mergers occur between hospitals in separate geographic markets. In nearly every analytical respect, they are unlike horizontal and vertical mergers, and neither federal antitrust agency has ever challenged such a merger. These transactions are drawing attention over concerns they may give merging hospitals greater power over price than they individuall
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