The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a notice explaining how it may go about applying antitrust rules to the new Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs).
The FTC, which has developed the notice together with the antitrust division of the U.S. Justice Department, says it and the Justice Department will apply a "rule of reason" when financial or clinical integration arrangements appear to be good for the overall level of competition, rather than bad.
Arrangements that are acceptable in the Medicare ACO program will also be acceptable in the commercial ACO market, officials say.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
