Health Care: Antitrust Enforcement Under Maryland's Hospital All-Payer System
HEHS-94-81
Published: Apr 27, 1994. Publicly Released: May 09, 1994.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed Maryland's hospital antitrust enforcement actions, focusing on: (1) the effect of Maryland's all-payer rate-setting and certificate of need (CON) programs on the state's antitrust enforcement actions; and (2) whether these programs render state antitrust enforcement for hospitals unnecessary.
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