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.
Recommended Citation
Leonard, Ellen J.
(1995)
"Antitrust and Cooperative Purchasing
Arrangements: The Payors' Perspective,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1995:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1995/iss2/6