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The Antitrust Section of the Economics and Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals Committees of the American Bar Association will host this brown bag program in the Washington, DC office of Hogan & Hartson on 8 November 2007. The program will focus on hospitals, healthcare professionals, and healthcare insurers, with an emphasis on how the basic principles of antitrust economics are practically applied in the healthcare industry. NERA Senior Vice President Dr. Lawrence Wu will participate in the discussion, which will cover the key economic concepts and analyses relevant to assessing competition in the healthcare marketplace. The faculty will discuss product and geographic market definition; the range of market power (monopoly and monopsony) issues facing healthcare professionals, hospitals, and health insurers; contracting practices of providers and insurers; the potential competitive implications of hospital-physician relationships; and the factors that affect the ease of entry and expansion into provider and payer markets.