Clayton Act Scrutiny of Nonprofit Hospital Mergers: The Wrong Rx for Ailing Institutions

Authors

David L. Glazer

Abstract

The Sherman and Clayton antitrust laws have long been used to challenge anticompetitive mergers between for-profit entities. Recently, the federal government began challenging mergers between nonprofit hospitals under the Clayton Act. Two federal circuit courts are divided on whether nonprofit mergers are subject to Clayton Act scrutiny. This Comment examines the statutory interpretations and the policy arguments suggested by the two cases, and concludes that the Clayton Act does not, and should not, apply to nonprofit hospital mergers.

First Page

1041

Recommended Citation

David L. Glazer, Comment, Clayton Act Scrutiny of Nonprofit Hospital Mergers: The Wrong Rx for Ailing Institutions, 66 Wash. L. Rev. 1041 (1991).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol66/iss4/5