Models for Enhanced Health Care Market Oversight

State policymakers are seeking tools to address increasing health care market consolidation, which can increase health care costs and weaken health care access and quality for patients. This briefing examined how some states have expanded oversight over health care transactions to assure affordability and access using two pathways: expanding the review authority of the attorney general or other state agencies or giving authority to review transactions to additional oversight entities.

Panelists:

• Morgan McDonald, MD, Milbank Memorial Fund
• Katie Gudiksen, PhD, The Source of Healthcare Price and Competition
• Erin C. Fuse Brown, JD, MPH, Georgia State University College of Law
• South Moore, JD, Office of North Carolina Attorney General
• Tracy Wertz, JD, Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Antitrust Section