Brock T H
Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn.
Health Syst Rev. 1993 Nov-Dec;26(6):36-8.
On September 15, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission issued joint antitrust guidelines to enhance health care industry understanding of antitrust enforcement policy in six topic areas. The guidelines represent a statement of federal antitrust enforcement policy. The guidelines do not change existing law and are not binding on private antitrust litigants or the courts. According to the guidelines, the agencies will not challenge a merger between two general acute-care hospitals where one of the hospitals (1) has an average of fewer than 100 licensed beds over the three most recent years, (2) has an average daily inpatient census of fewer than 40 patients over the three most recent years and (3) is more than five years old. With regard to hospital mergers that fall outside of the safety zone, traditional antitrust merger analysis will apply.
9月15日，美国司法部和联邦贸易委员会发布了联合反垄断指南，以增强医疗保健行业对六个主题领域反垄断执法政策的理解。这些指南代表了联邦反垄断执法政策的声明。指南并未改变现有法律，对私人反垄断诉讼当事人或法院也没有约束力。根据指南，对于两家普通急症护理医院之间的合并，如果其中一家医院（1）在最近三年中平均持牌病床少于100张，（2）在最近三年中平均每日住院患者普查少于40人，且（3）成立超过五年，那么相关机构将不会对此合并提出质疑。对于不在安全区内的医院合并，将适用传统的反垄断合并分析。
