As legislative leaders go down to the wire negotiating a major health care cost-control bill, Governor Deval Patrick has proposed a new approach for targeting large, expensive hospitals and doctors groups that may be driving up fees by abusing their market power.
The governor’s plan requires the administration to conduct a “cost and market impact review’’ of any medical provider it suspects is engaging in or plans to engage in anticompetitive behavior.
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"any medical provider it suspects is engaging in or plans to engage in anticompetitive behavior." Really, now they're going to pass a law that makes it against the law to think about breaking the law?
It would appear none of the State's plan will work and current actions are futile - this is just PR to appease the public into a false sense of security that actions are being taken. This article is lacking info on how fees are set by hospitals and whether these fees are accurately determined and justifiable or just set arbitrarally high. what does negotiated mean - are rates based on reasonable and supportable costs?