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Northwest New Mexico Physicians Agree to Settle FTC Charges That They Fixed Prices
FTC Halts Physician Price-Fixing in Cincinnati Area
Announced Actions for April 22, 2005
FTC Requests Re-Hearing in Schering-Plough Case
Announced Actions for April 19, 2005
Preferred Health Services, Inc., In the Matter of
The order prohibits Preferred Health Services from orchestrating collective agreements and other terms for physician services when negotiating with health insurance plans and other third party payers. According to the complaint these agreements among the physician-hospital organization of doctors and the Oconee Memorial Hospital in northwestern South Carolina to collectively negotiate fees and terms of services could lead to higher health care costs and limited physician access.
Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A., to be renamed Aventis S.A
A final order settled charges stemming from Hoechst's merger with Rhone-Poulenc S.A. According to the complaint, the merger (the merged firm would be renamed Aventis S.A.) raised antitrust concerns in the market for cellulose acetate and direct thrombin acetate. The order requires the divestiture of the 'subsidiary, Rhodia, a specialty chemicals firm that produces cellulose acetate.
Announced Action for April 7, 2005
Chicago-Area Physicians Group Agrees Not to Fix Prices
Enterprise Products Partners L.P., and Dan L. Duncan, In the Matter of
California Pacific Medical Group, Inc., In the Matter of
With an administrative complaint issued on July 8, 2003 the Commission charged a San Francisco, California physicians’ organization with engaging in an agreement under which its competing members agreed collectively on the price and other terms on which they would enter into contracts with health plans or other third party payers. The complaint also alleged that Brown and Toland directed its physicians to end their preexisting contracts with payers and required its physician members to charge specified prices in all Preferred Provider Organization contracts. A final consent order prohibits Brown and Toland from negotiating with payers on behalf of physicians, refusing to deal with payers, and setting terms for physicians to deal with payers, unless the physicians are clinically or financially integrated.
In Letter to Virginia State Delegate, FTC Staff Supports Continued Competition in the Provision of Optometric Care to States Consumers
Federal Trade Commission Staff Cites Opposition to North Dakota PBM Bill
FTC Seeks Court Order to Force Blockbuster to Comply with Premerger Rules
South Carolina Doctors Group Barred from Fixing Prices
Town Meetings on Patent System Reform
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