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Policies to Address the Impact of Consolidation in Health Care Delivery Sherry Glied May 13, 2015 Integration vs. Competition Balancing Offsetting Considerations Pro-consolidation Private Medicare Integrated delivery benefits ?


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Policies to Address the Impact of Consolidation in Health Care Delivery

Sherry Glied May 13, 2015

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Integration vs. Competition

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Balancing Offsetting Considerations

  • Pro-consolidation

– Integrated delivery benefits – Limits medical arms race

  • Anti-consolidation

– Market efficiency (quality) – Pricing power

Private Medicare ?      

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What do we know?

  • Medical care arms race

– More robots = more robots = more procedures

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Competition, Management, Quality

What do we know?

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Policy Options

  • Reinforce Competition

– Antitrust enforcement – Transparency – Narrowing anti-competitive rules

  • More Regulatory options

– Upper limits on negotiated rates – All-payer rate setting

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Balancing Offsetting Considerations

  • Pro-competition

– Theory is strong – Success depends on acceptance of narrow networks – Not suitable everywhere

  • More regulatory

– Theory?? – Methods? but evidence is weak

Marketplaces Employers ?

39% → 1 hospital in HSA evidence?

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Balancing Offsetting Considerations

  • Rate-setting and cost-shifting??
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sherry.glied@nyu.edu

Thank you!