In the last decades, many European hospital markets witnessed a wave of mergers leading to increased levels of market … concentration. The effects of hospital mergers and the effectiveness of competition enforcement have been discussed by politicians … but understudied by academics. This report studies how hospital mergers impact hospital service provision by focusing on …

merger of St. Therese Medical Center (STMC) and Victory Memorial Hospital (VMH). Using standard difference …We provide an in-depth analysis of the price effects of two hospital mergers that occurred in the north shore suburbs … of Chicago in early 2000: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's (ENH) purchase of Highland Park Hospital (HPH) and the …

The Federal Trade Commission initiated a Hospital Merger Retrospective Project in 2002 to analyze the effects of … Columbia Cape Fear Memorial Hospital ("Cape Fear") in Wilmington, North Carolina. In this paper, we employ patient-level claims … data from four different insurers to estimate the effects of this merger on inpatient prices. Our results provide mixed …

We conduct a retrospective study of the Sutter-Summit hospital merger to assess whether antitrust enforcement in this … increase was among the largest of any comparable hospital in California, indicating this transaction may have been … matter was appropriate. This consummated merger combined two hospitals located close together in the Oakland-Berkeley region …

We examine 558 hospital mergers during a period of increased antitrust enforcement. Using US data on commercially … likely to lead to efficiencies had higher price increases. Using administrative data on merger investigations, we estimate …