Ominous Signs and Portents: A Purchaser's View of Health Care Market Trends

Health Affairs

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 85-88

  Bailit, Michael H ^a  

^a Bailit Health Purchasing LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ECONOMIC COMPETITION; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0006580856     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.16.6.85     Document Type: Short Survey

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11. F.T.C v Freeman Hospital, 69 F.3d 250 (8th Cir. 1995); U.S. v Mercy Health Services et al., 902 F. Supp. 968 (N.D. Iowa 1995), vacated and remanded (8th Cir. Iowa, 26 February 1997); and F.T.C. v Butterworth Health Corporation, Dkt. no. 1:96 CV49 (W.D. Mich.).