Health Policy Statement Number Seven and Marketplace Competition in the Health Care Supply Chain : A Market-Based Analysis

By Everard, Lynn James

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Title:	Health Policy Statement Number Seven and Marketplace Competition in the Health Care Supply Chain : A Market-Based Analysis
Author:	Everard, Lynn James
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Language:	English
Subject:	Trade, Import and export controls, Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
Collections:	Economics Publications Collection, Federal Trade Commission
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Introduction: ______________________________________________________________________ On September 26, 2003 the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission held a joint hearing debating the merits of revising Health Policy Statement Number Seven. That statement specifically provides for an antitrust safety zone for health care Group Purchasing Organizations provided they stay within a very broad set of criteria. Although the policy statement may have been appropriate at the time it was drafted the health care supply marketplace has undergone enormous change, much of which has eroded the relevance of the current statement.