Sole Practitioner Physicians Are Not Yet Feeling the Pressure from Healthcare

question 34

True/False

Sole practitioner physicians are not yet feeling the pressure from healthcare plans to disclose outcome or patient satisfaction information.

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Definitions:

Robinson-Patman Act

A United States federal law aimed at prohibiting anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discrimination.

Price Discrimination

Price discrimination occurs when a seller charges different prices to different customers for the same product or service, where such differences cannot be justified by variations in cost.

Group Boycotts

A concerted refusal by a group of businesses to deal with a particular company or a form of collective industrial action.

Sherman Act

A landmark federal statute in the United States antitrust law passed by Congress in 1890 to preserve competitive markets by prohibiting monopolies, cartels, and other forms of anti-competitive behavior.