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.
Comments on the effect of algorithms and artificial intelligence on the likelihood of coordinated effects as described in Guideline 3 of the draft Merger Guidelines
In this note, we discuss how the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (collectively, the Agencies) view the effect...