Independent Video Services
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re: Concerning price differences in the sale of educational video programs to physicians and hospitals.
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Advisory opinion clarifying three provisions of a 1972 order concerning safety claims for its tires
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Clarification of three provisions of a 1972 order concerning safety claims for its tires, Decisions Volume 112
Pan American Management Associates
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re: Concerning the creation of a limited partnership between hospital and physicians to establish a PPO in which the physicians are to be excluded from price negotiations with payers.
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Advisory opinion concluding that proposed acquisition by Coca-Cola would require prior Commission approval under the Commission's order of August 3, 1983
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Proposed acquisition by Coca-Cola would require prior Commission approval under the Commission's order of August 3, 1983, Decisions Volume 111
Intracorp
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re: Concerning use of a physician-developed RVS by a cost-containment service to determine UCR price screens.
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Washington Health Care Association
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re: Concerning a nursing home association's program to evaluate the quality of care provided by nursing homes.
Academy of Ambulatory Foot Surgery
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Letter from M. Elizabeth Gee to Andrew K. Dolan, Esq., dated 07/31/87 re: Concerning a professional association's assistance to third-party payers in determining when foot surgery may be restricted to...
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Maryland Medical Eye Associates
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re: Concerning the formation, marketing, and operation of a partially integrated professional organization, owned by nine ophthalmologists in five separate medical practices, to offer services to HMOs...
Advisory opinion concluding that proposed barter program with foreign countries for phosphate rock would avoid respondent's involvement in other than export trade and falls under the protection of the Webb-Pomerene Act
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Proposed barter program with foreign countries for phosphate rock would avoid respondent's involvement in other than export trade and falls under the protection of the Webb-Pomerene Act, Decisions...
Association for Quality Health Care, Inc
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re: Concerning a proposal by an association of employers with self-funded health plans to negotiate with providers.
Pacific International Health, Inc.
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re: Concerning the formation and operation of a provider-controlled PPO in which the price agreements are between individual participating physicians and each payer.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society
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re: Concerning the proposal of an insurer to enter into contracts with hospitals for DRG-based payment.
California PPO
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re: Concerning a proposal by a PPO composed of multiple hospitals and physician organizations to negotiate contracts with third-party payers.
Passaic County Medical Society
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re: Concerning a professional society’s peer review of physicians' fees that is mandatory and binding on the physician.
North Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons
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re: Relating to a survey of members' fees.
American Intra-Ocular Implant Society
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re: Concerning the development of a standard disclosure protocol for intraocular lens manufacturers who offer inducements to physicians.
Private Healthcare Systems
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re: Concerning a proposal by an insurer to develop a proprietary national network of managed health care systems and to function as a joint purchasing agent for commercial health insurers.
American Dental Association
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re: Relating to a survey of the range of dentists' fees in local markets.
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American Society of Internal Medicine
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re: Concerning the development and dissemination of a RVS by an association of physicians.
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