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Article: Research results from Northwestern University update knowledge of healthcare policy.
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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"In recent years, federal courts have permitted hospital consolidations and other potentially anticompetitive actions by accepting hospitals' claims that they compete in expansive geographic markets. Recent events, including two actions by the U. S. Federal Trade Commission, suggest that antitrust is undergoing a sea change, thanks in part to new methods for defining geographic markets," scientists in the United States report (see also Healthcare Policy).
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