Competitor Collaborations in Health Care: Understanding the Proposed ACO Antitrust Review Process

Health care markets involve a complex interaction of facilities, physicians, and health plans to deliver patient care. Under ideal circumstances, the forces of competition would lead inevitably to appropriate, high quality patient care at low prices. The competitive process, however, requires sufficient flow of information and aligned incentives. Absent these conditions, the competitive process can (and has been known to) break down. Indeed, the last decade has seen