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Workshop Materials

FTC Health Care Workshop Agenda

 

Press Release Announcing the Workshop

 

Federal Register Notice Announcing the Workshop ()

Bureau of Competition

Federal Trade Commission Announces Formation of Merger Litigation Task Force (August 28, 2002)

 

Denver-Area Physician Practice Groups and their Agent Agree to Settle FTC Charges of Fixing Fees (August 20, 2002)

 

Dallas-Fort Worth-Area Physicians Group Agrees to Settle (August 20, 2002)

 

Consent Order Resolves Charges that Biovail and Elan Agreement Unreasonably Restrained Competition in Market for Generic Anti-Hypertension Drug (June 27, 2002)

 

Two Denver-Area Physician Groups Agree to Settle FTC Charges of Fixing Fees (May 13, 2002)

 

Wrongful "Orange Book" Listing Raises Red Flag with FTC; Leads to Consent Order with Biovail Corp. Concerning its Drug Tiazac (April 23, 2002)

 

Muris Testifies on Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry (April 23, 2002)

 

Napa Valley OB/GYN Group Settles FTC Antitrust Charges (April 5, 2002)

 

FTC Staff Opposes Alaska PhysiciansÆ Health Plan Legislation (March 25, 2002)

 

FTC Advisory Opinion Letter to MedSouth, Inc. (February 19, 2002)

 

FTC Staff Opposes Washington State Proposal to Allow Physician Collective Bargaining (February 14, 2002)

 

Issuance of Two Amicus Curiae Memorandum of Law Briefs: 1) Bristol-Myers-Squibb and Buspirone; and 2) The Hearst Trust and First Data Bank (January 9, 2002)

Bureau of Consumer Protection

Weight Loss

 

FTC Files Second Civil Contempt Action Against Enforma Defendants: New Contempt Charges Filed Against Enforma Employee and an Additional Company (July 25, 2002)

 

FTC Charges Three Top-Selling Electronic Abdominal Exercise Belts with Making False Claims (May 8, 2002)

 

FTC Seeks Civil Contempt Liability for Defendants' Violations of Court Order (January 10, 2002)

 

FTC Files Charges Against Additional Defendants Involved in the Deceptive Advertising of "The Enforma System" (September 1, 2000)

 

Marketers of "The Enforma System" Settle FTC Charges of Deceptive Advertising for Their Weight Loss Products (April 26, 2000)

Bioterrorism

FTC Announces First Two Enforcement Actions Against Purveyors of Bioterrorism Defense Products (February 27, 2002)

 

FTC Broadens Warnings to Marketers of Bioterrorism Defense Products (January 2, 2002)

 

FTC Cracks Down on Marketers of Bogus Bioterrorism Defense Products (November 19, 2001)

 

FTC Warning Letter of Potential Illegal Marketing of Products or Therapies to Prevent, Treat, or Cure Anthrax, Smallpox, or Other Diseases or Health Hazards (November 19, 2001)

Medical Privacy

Eli Lilly Settles FTC Charges Concerning Security Breach (January 18, 2002)

Functional Foods

Wonder Bread Marketers Settle FTC Charges (March 6, 2002)

Health Fraud

Company Touting Unproven Cancer Treatment Agrees to Settle FTC Charges (July 24, 2002)

 

"Operation Cure.All" Nets Shark Cartilage Promoters: Two Companies Charged with Making False and Unsubstantiated Claims for Their Shark Cartilage and Skin Cream as Cancer Treatments (June 29, 2000)

 

"Operation Cure.All" Wages New Battle in Ongoing War Against Internet Health Fraud (June 14, 2001)

 

"Operation Cure.All" Targets Internet Health Fraud (June 24, 1999)

Bureau of Economics

Regulatory Restrictions on Selective Contracting: An Empirical Analysis of "Any-Willing-Provider" Regulations. By: M. G. Vita, Journal of Health Economics, 20 (2001)

 

The Competitive Effects of Not-For-Profit Hospital Mergers: A Case Study. By: M.G. Vita and S. Sacher, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. XLIX, March 2001

Biographies of Participants in the Workshop