Collaborative agreements in health care: complexities, uncertainties, and considerations for oversight

Collaborative agreements in health care: complexities, uncertainties, and considerations for oversight

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Issue brief (California HealthCare Foundation)
Author(s):
Gu, Amy Y., author
Gudiksen, Katherine L., author
Contributor(s):
California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body.
Publication:
[Oakland, CA] : California Health Care Foundation, May 2023
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Facility Regulation and Control
Government Regulation
Intersectoral Collaboration
California
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
In recent years, health care entities in California - including hospitals, medical groups, and health insurance companies - have consolidated in various ways, including through full mergers and acquisitions that change the ownership or control of the participating entities. At the same time, a variety of nonmerger collaborative agreements have proliferated within the industry. Compared to traditional mergers and acquisitions, collaborative agreements preserve a degree of operational and financial independence for the contracting parties. Both state and federal oversight of collaborative agreements in health care is complex and rapidly evolving. In California, the newly created Office of Health Care Affordability is tasked with implementing new pretransaction reporting requirements that could apply to collaborative agreements. At the federal level, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued and then recently withdrew guidance governing some of these transactions. This issue brief aims to examine the potential effects of collaborative health care agreements in California and to highlight some intricacies for their oversight in this dynamic area of policy and law.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
9918645685806676 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918645685806676