{"product_id":"the-price-effects-of-hospital-federal-trade-commission-9781502493859","title":"The Price Effects of Hospital Mergers: A Case Study of the Sutter-Summit Transaction","description":"This consummated merger combined two hospitals located close together in the Oakland-Berkeley region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The greater metropolitan area contained many other hospitals that offered a similar range of services, but which were located farther away. A central issue raised by the Sutter-Summit transaction was whether travel costs were low enough such that these hospitals were a sufficient constraint on the merging parties to prevent an anticompetitive price increase. We use detailed claims data from three large health insurers to compare the post-merger price change for the merging parties to the price change for a set of control group hospitals. Our results show that Summit's price increase was among the largest of any comparable hospital in California, indicating this transaction may have been anticompetitive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Federal Trade Commission\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1502493853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781502493859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.06d","brand":"Federal Trade Commission","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47759216804095,"sku":"9781502493859","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3769b48f-8e21-403f-91bf-3e882e1ea91e.jpg?v=1765512232","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-price-effects-of-hospital-federal-trade-commission-9781502493859","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}