This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Federal Government Releases New Guidelines for Horizontal Mergers The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice have released revised horizontal merger guidelines — the first time the ...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department (the agencies) jointly issued the long-awaited new merger guidelines (the guidelines) at the end of 2023. The guidelines highlight the agencies' ...

Leaders of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) across administrations have promoted the policy goal of driving all of Medicare and the majority of Medicaid patients into risk-based ...

Vertical consolidation in healthcare has been a hot-button topic of late as regulators eye strategies to bring down healthcare costs. But do these massive "payvider" firms do more harm than good? The ...