The FTC and the Department of Justice Provide New Guidance: Antitrust Enforcement Against Health Care Providers To Remain A Top Priority
September 27, 2004
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice (together the Agencies) recently issued a 361-page report “Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition” (the Report). The Report, which was issued by the Commissioners of the FTC and the DOJ (as opposed to staff attorneys at the Agencies), describes the Agencies’ current thinking on the application of the antitrust laws and their enforcement priorities in the health care industry. This White Paper distills the key information that health care providers — including physician and other provider network joint ventures, hospitals and hospital networks, pharmacy benefits managers, group purchasing organizations, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies — need to understand to ensure their own antitrust compliance to avoid unnecessary antitrust problems or investigations and to benefit from the antitrust compliance and market competition of their suppliers, customers and competitors.
Please click here to view the entire White Paper in Adobe PDF format.
