Abstract
Because joint purchasing arrangements are a central feature in current health care reform efforts, it is fitting that one of the Symposium's panel discussions focuses on them. Professor Havighurst raises the antitrust issues presented by group-purchasing arrangements, emphasizing the need for careful evaluation of buyers market power in order to ensure that such collaborations do not have anticompetitive effects. His conclusion that "[e]mployer coalitions or cooperatives engaged in the joint purchasing of health care can plausibly promise to achieve efficiencies" is borne out by the fact that a variety of private activities are currently under way to achieve those efficiencies. I will discuss some of these private activities and the legislative proposals they have spawned. In addition, I will describe various proposals to immunize collaborative purchasers from the antitrust laws and the legal and policy problems they present.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.63140/muqjndtjxl
Recommended Citation
Leonard, Ellen J.
(1995)
"Antitrust and Cooperative Purchasing
Arrangements: The Payors' Perspective,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1995:
No.
2, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63140/muqjndtjxl
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1995/iss2/6