CRA has provided economic assessments of competition in connection with several mergers of clinical laboratories. CRA has analyzed the degree of competition from hospital and physician-owned labs, the nature of bidding for capitated lab arrangements with providers, and the extent to which a national market exists for contracts with health plans exists.
How capacity constraints shape unilateral price effects in horizontal mergers
Examples include hospitals with a fixed number of beds, and hotels with a fixed number of rooms. In the article “Unilateral Price Effects in Horizontal...