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Colegio de Optometras, Edgar Davila Garcia, O.D., and Carlos Rivera Alonso, O.D., In the Matter of
The Commission charged a group of optometrists in Puerto Rico with violating the FTC Act by orchestrating agreements among members of the Colegio de Optometras to refuse, or threaten to refuse, to accept vision and health care contracts except on collectively agreed-upon terms. Two leaders of the group were also charged with facilitating the agreement by urging members not to participate in the vision network. The Commission’s consent order settling these charges bars the group and the two leaders from engaging in such conduct, while allowing them to undertake certain kinds of joint contracting arrangements by which physician participants control costs and improve quality by managing the provision of services. FTC staff worked with the Office of Monopolistic Affairs of Puerto Rico’s Department of Justice on this case.
South Carolina State Board of Dentistry, In the Matter of
The Commission settled a September 15 2003 administrative complaint charging the South Carolina State Board of Dentistry with unlawfully restraining competition by enacting a rule that required a dentist to examine every child before a dental hygienist could provide preventive dental care – such as cleanings – in schools. The Board, which is a state regulatory agency composed primarily of practicing dentists, claimed that its actions were immune from antitrust challenge under the state action doctrine, but that argument was rejected in a 2004 Commission opinion holding that the Board’s conduct was directly contrary to state law. In 2006, the court of appeals dismissed the Board’s interlocutory petition for review for lack of jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court denied certiorari in January 2007. The FTC’s 2007 consent requires the Board to publicly support the current state public health program that allows hygienists to provide preventive dental care to schoolchildren, especially those from low-income families.
0709005 Informal Interpretation
0709006 Informal Interpretation
0709004 Informal Interpretation
20072066: HealthSpring, Inc.; Benjamin Leon, Jr. and Silvia Leon
20072044: The Talisker Partnership; Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P.
0709003 Informal Interpretation
0709002 Informal Interpretation
King Roach Enterprises, Inc.
20072037: MetLife, Inc.; SafeGuard Health Enterprises, Inc.
0709001 Informal Interpretation
20071659: Volt Information Sciences, Inc.; Warburg Pincus Private Equity VIII, L.P.
0709022 Informal Interpretation
FTC Comment Before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Concerning Wholesale Competition in Regions with Organized Electric Markets
Service Corporation International, In the Matter of
Consent order permits the acquisition of Equity Corporation International, the fourth largest funeral home and cemetery company in the United States, and requires SCI to divest funeral service and cemetery properties in 14 markets to Carriage Services, Inc. to remedy the anticompetitive effects of the acquisition.