Industry consolidation means fewer competitors for health plans: antitrust accusations have already started to fly.(Managed Care)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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Consolidation among insurers is eroding competition in the health plan marketplace, warns a new study from the American Medical Association. But fewer competitors may actually spell trouble for health plans down the road.

Leading plans are getting larger, small plans are quickly disappearing, and new plans are becoming few and far between. In most health care product markets--95 percent of the individual markets the AMA analyzed--a single insurer dominates...

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