review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model … consider competition in health insurance markets and physician services markets. We conclude by considering vertical restraints …

In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been … applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …