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06-18-2018 - AAI’s Diana Moss Testifies at the California Insurance Commission Hearing on the Proposed Merger of CVS and Aetna

On Tuesday, June 19, AAI President Diana Moss will testify with other experts on the proposed acquisition of health insurer, Aetna Inc., by pharmacy benefit manager and retail pharmacy, CVS Health Corporation. Moss’s testimony will draw from AAI’s March 26, 2018 letter opposing the merger to the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. The AAI letter dated March 26, 2018, can be found here. The hearing, to be held by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, will examine the potential competitive effects of the proposed merger. Aetna and CVS representatives will testify at the hearing along with consumer organizations, medical provider organizations, and economists. The hearing will be streamed live here.

06-18-2018 - AAI Issues Part II in New White Paper Series on Competition in the Delivery and Payment of Healthcare Services — Experts Tim Greaney And Barak Richman Discuss Promoting Competition in Healthcare Enforcement And Policy: Framing an Active Competition Agenda

Today, the AAI released the second part of its new White Paper series on Competition in the Delivery and Payment of Healthcare Services. Part II of this important and comprehensive analysis addresses “Promoting Competition in Healthcare Enforcement and Policy: Framing an Active Competition Agenda. The White Papers are co-authored by two of AAI's Advisory Board competition experts: Thomas Greaney, Visiting Professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law and Chester A. Myers Professor Emeritus at Saint Louis University School of Law; and Barak Richman, the Edgar P. & Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Business Administration at Duke University.

06-14-2018 - Moss Discusses AT&T-Time Warner on C-SPAN

Diana Moss joined Josh Wright on C-SPAN’s Communicators Roundtable to discuss the AT&T-Time Warner merger. Moss and Wright, who is Executive Director at the Global Antitrust Institute, agreed the ruling was narrowly written and will likely not affect other merger efforts. Watch their conversation here.

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AAI Working Paper No. 11-02: Live Aid? Assessing the Ability of the Ticketmaster-Live Nation Consent Decree to Restore Competition Levels in the Primary Ticketing Market

Apr 15 2011

Aaron Silvenis

Working Papers

History and Theory of Antitrust, Mergers and Joint Ventures

This working paper by Aaron Silvenis, an AAI Summer Research Fellow, proposes a method for evaluating the DOJ's regulatory remedy for the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger and provides early indications of possible weakness.

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