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Regulating Competition in
ACOs: Present and Future
Jaime King, JD, PhD
ACO Workshop
UC Berkeley
May 8, 2015
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Road Map
•Federal Enforcement Background
•Federal Antitrust Enforcement-When to Use Structural vs. Conduct Remedies
•State Regulatory Options to Promote Competition
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Consolidation in Health Care Markets
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Federal Enforcement Timeline
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Integration of Health Care Organizations
•Horizontal Integration
•Vertical Integration
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Methods of Integration
•Alliance
•Joint Venture
•Mergers and Acquisitions
•Sale of Assets
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Structural vs. Conduct Remedies
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Pre-Merger/Pre-ACO Formation
Rule of
Reason
Horizontal Merger
Joint Venture/Collaborati
on
MSSP
Structural Remedies Preferred
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Key Question Pre-Merger/ACO Formation
•Is a proposed structure necessary to obtain the pro-competitive goals of the ACO?
•Horizontal Mergers
•Alliances
•Management Contracts
•Vertical Mergers
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Pre-Merger Conduct Remedy Challenges
•Inferior substitute for competition among independent entities.
•Monitoring
•High Administrative Costs
•Enforcement
•Limited Duration
•Unintended Consequences
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Pre-Merger/ACO Formation Conduct Remedies
•FTC generally rejects.
•State AG offices more open to the idea.
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Post-Merger/Post ACO Formation
•Structural Remedies
•More challenging once firms have been fully integrated
•Threaten loss of procompetitive efficiencies
•Conduct Remedies
•Offer an opportunity to work with an ACO to correct harmful behavior.
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Potential Conduct Remedies for ACOs
•Direct price caps per capita
•Limits on total health expenditures
•Contract limitations
•Limit future acquisitions
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Healthcare Organizations with Great Market Concentration
Structural Remedies (Sherman Act §2)
•Full or Partial Divestiture
•Division into Smaller Entities (AT&T)
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ADDITIONAL STATE OPTIONS FOR ACO OVERSIGHT
Additional State Options for Oversight
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State Data Collection
•Collect and analyze price, quality and competition data to form empirical evidence base for ACOs.
•All Payer Claims Database
•Collect price and quality data on all market actors for comparison.
•Create entity to gather and analyze data and report to AG and FTC.
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Potential Legislation
•Require Disclosure of Price and Quality Data
•Contract Provisions
•Most Favored Nation Bans
•Prohibit All or Nothing Provisions
•Limit Exclusionary Contracts
•State Certification of ACOs (e.g. MA, NY)
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State Action Immunity and Certificate of Public Advantage
•Provide immunity from state and federal antitrust laws.
•13 states offer immunity specifically for healthcare collaborations. (3 State Action Immunity/10 COPA)
•Provide varied requirements and degrees of protection.
•FTC generally opposes.
•Some benefits over conduct remedies.
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Future Regulation and Oversight•Careful scrutiny through pre-merger/pre-ACO formation review to avoid unnecessary market concentration.
•Data collection and analysis for impacts on price, quality and competition both within ACO and the market as a whole.
•If problems arise, agencies should work with the health care entities to find solutions, perhaps via conduct remedies.
•If repeated violations due to high market concentration, divestiture of a unitary entity should be considered.
•States can play a significant role, if so desired.
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Thank You!
• Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor, The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition
• Evan Sznol, Fellow, The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition
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Promise of ACOs
•Promote Efficiency
•Improve Quality of Care
•Enhance Competition
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Peril of ACOs
•Increase Consolidation
•Hinder Competition
•Increase Health Care Prices
•Quality Reduction or Stagnation
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