Leading health insurers such as UnitedHealthcare, WellPoint, and Humana have retained CRA to assess the competitive effects of mergers and present our findings to federal and state regulators. Our experts have analyzed the product and geographic markets for commercial and government-sponsored health plans, the likelihood that buy-side market power could be exercised, the competitive constraints of entry and expansion, and the effect of regulations and oversight on plan pricing and quality.
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...