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FTC Approves Filing of Amended Complaint in Matter of Direct Marketing Concepts, Inc., et al.; Commission Approves Final Consent Order in Matter of Fresenius AG and American Renal Associates
American Renal Associates, Inc., a corporation, and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., a corporation
FTC Challenges Illegal Agreement to Close, Acquire Dialysis Clinics
Commission Rules that Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corp.s Acquisition of Highland Park Hospital Was Anticompetitive
Fresenius AG, In the Matter of
Fresenius AG settled charges that its purchase of rival dialysis provider Renal Care Group, Inc. would likely have resulted in higher prices for dialysis services. The consent order requires that Fresenius AG will sell 91 outpatient kidney dialysis clinics and financial interests in 12 more.
FTC Approves Final Consent Order in Matter of Fresenius and Renal Care
Commission Approves Divestiture in Matter of DaVita/Gambro; FTC Approves Petition for Sale of Meow Mix Company to Del Monte Corporation; Final Consent Order Approved in Matter of Dynamic Health of Florida
DaVita, Inc.
Maintaining Competition, FTC Allows Fresenius $3.5 Billion Deal to Buy Rival Dialysis Provider Renal Care Group
Davita Inc. Submits Petition for Approval of Proposed Divestiture; FTC Submits Budget Request and Performance Plans to Congress
Announced Action for November 18, 2005
Administrative Law Judge Orders Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation to Sell Highland Park Hospital
FTC Accepts Settlement to Remedy DaVita's Acquisition of Rival Outpatient Dialysis Clinic Provider Gambro
FTC Testifies on New Entry into Hospital Competition
Quest Diagnostics Inc.orporated and Unilab Corporation
Quest Diagnostics settled FTC charges that its proposed acquisition of Unilab Corporation would substantially increase concentration in the clinical laboratory testing services market by agreeing to divest clinical laboratory testing assets in Northern California to Laboratory Corporation of America.
Federal Trade Commission Announces Formation of Merger Litigation Task Force
Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Inc., and Poplar Bluff Physicians Group, Inc. d/b/a Doctors Regional Medical Center, FTC and State of Missouri
The FTC authorized its staff to file a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the proposed acquisition of Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. On July 30, 1998, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted the Commission's motion for the injunction. Tenet filed a notice of appeal in the Eighth Circuit on August 10, 1998. An administrative complaint was issued August 20, 1998 charging that the proposed merger of the only two general hospitals in Poplar Bluff would not only eliminate price, cost and quality competition but would also put consumers at risk of paying more for health care. In December 1999, the Commission dismissed the administrative complaint after the Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's decision and denied Commission’s petition for a rehearing en banc.
Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp, In the Matter of
Columbia MCA paid a $2.5 million civil penalty to settle charges that it failed to divest the Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Layton, Utah, the Pioneer Valley Hospital in West Valley City, Utah and the South Seminole Hospital in Florida as required by a 1995 consent order. The complaint and settlement were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Butterworth Health Corporation and Blodgett Memorial Medical Center
The Commission authorized staff to file a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the proposed merger of the two largest hospitals in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Blodgen and Butterworth Hospital, on grounds that the merger would substantially reduce competition for acute-care inpatient hospital services in the area The complaint was filed January 23,1996 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan (Southern Division). On September 26,1996, the court denied the Commission's request for an injunction. The Commission dismissed its administrative complaint after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the district court's decision.
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