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The health care market has, to some degree, become a free market since a number of years now. This should lead to higher quality of health care, increased patient choice, increased efficiency, and lower costs.
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A focus industry is an area of the Dutch economy that the NMa gives special attention to because of increased risk of anticompetitive behavior. The health care industry is one of the NMa’s focus industries in 2011.
If you have any tip-offs or specific questions regarding hospitals or health insurers, please contact division manager Judith van Tartwijk. She is an expert in this area. She examines whether the market functions well, and is on the look-out for potential abuses.
If you have any tip-offs or specific questions regarding the pharmaceutical industry, primary-care providers, or independent specialists in hospitals, please contact division manager Jeroen Braaksma. He is an expert in this area. He examines whether the market functions well, and is on the look-out for potential abuses.
The NMa’s Competition Department has a unit that is charged with oversight on competition in the health care industry. The degree of competition varies per submarket. Read more about what the NMa focuses on in its enforcement actions.
The NMa has intervened in market-sharing agreements by home care providers. It also looked into the so-called ‘location policy’ of general practitioners. And hospitals in Amsterdam have promised to adjust their information-exchange processes after the NMa had stepped in.
Together with the Dutch Healthcare Authority, the NMa clarified what types of collaboration agreements and conduct are allowed under the Dutch Competition Act. This has been explained in the Guidelines for the Health Care Industry.
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