Padden M
Gardner, Carton, and Douglas, Chicago, IL, USA.
Healthc Financ Manage. 1998 Mar;52(3):34-7.
In October 1997, a New York court rejected an attempt by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block the merger of two New York teaching hospitals. The DOJ's case was based, in part, on the premise that the consumers in the hospitals' market were managed care organizations, which needed prestigious teaching hospitals to "anchor" their healthcare delivery networks. In rejecting the DOJ's argument, the court found, in particular, that the merging hospitals were not sufficiently distinguishable from other area hospitals to constitute a separate product market of anchor hospitals and that the merging hospitals' faced competition for about 85 percent of their services. Moreover, the court recognized other significant consumers in the market. The decision may pave the way for metropolitan-area hospitals to pursue mergers.
1997年10月，纽约一家法院驳回了美国司法部（DOJ）阻止两家纽约教学医院合并的企图。美国司法部的这起诉讼部分基于这样一个前提，即医院市场的消费者是管理式医疗组织，这些组织需要有声望的教学医院来“支撑”其医疗服务网络。在驳回美国司法部的论点时，法院特别认定，合并的医院与该地区的其他医院没有足够的差异，不足以构成一个独立的“支撑医院”产品市场，而且合并的医院约85%的服务面临着竞争。此外，法院认可了市场上的其他重要消费者。这一裁决可能为大都市地区的医院进行合并铺平道路。
