title: Promises, promises. Hospitals are using price-control pledges to win antitrust clearance from states, but the feds are wary.
abstract: The wariness of the Federal Trade Commission hasn't stopped a number of hospitals from trying, particularly at the state level, to get antitrust clearance for their high-marketshare mergers. Pledges to freeze or limit prices have become the antitrust strategy du jour.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burda
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Jaklevic
mesh_terms: D016363:Antitrust Laws; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States