
A Maryland pathologist and MedChi past president explains how all-or-nothing contracts, anti-steering clauses and private equity deals inflate costs. He also outlines the federal and state reforms that could restore competition.

Eric Wargotz, MD, FCAP, is a practicing physician, a pathologist based in Maryland, a clinical professor emeritus of pathology at the George Washington University School of Medicine, and the 178th president of MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society.

A Maryland pathologist and MedChi past president explains how all-or-nothing contracts, anti-steering clauses and private equity deals inflate costs. He also outlines the federal and state reforms that could restore competition.