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Enterprise Products Partners L.P., and Dan L. Duncan, In the Matter of
California Pacific Medical Group, Inc., In the Matter of
With an administrative complaint issued on July 8, 2003 the Commission charged a San Francisco, California physicians’ organization with engaging in an agreement under which its competing members agreed collectively on the price and other terms on which they would enter into contracts with health plans or other third party payers. The complaint also alleged that Brown and Toland directed its physicians to end their preexisting contracts with payers and required its physician members to charge specified prices in all Preferred Provider Organization contracts. A final consent order prohibits Brown and Toland from negotiating with payers on behalf of physicians, refusing to deal with payers, and setting terms for physicians to deal with payers, unless the physicians are clinically or financially integrated.
In Letter to Virginia State Delegate, FTC Staff Supports Continued Competition in the Provision of Optometric Care to States Consumers
Federal Trade Commission Staff Cites Opposition to North Dakota PBM Bill
FTC Seeks Court Order to Force Blockbuster to Comply with Premerger Rules
South Carolina Doctors Group Barred from Fixing Prices
Town Meetings on Patent System Reform
FTC Issues Study on Competition in Contact Lens Market
Announced Action for February 11, 2005
Announced Action for February 4, 2005
Genzyme Corporation and Ilex Oncology, Inc., In the Matter of
A consent order allowed Genzyme’s acquisition of ILEX Oncology, Inc., but requires the companies to divest certain assets in the market for solid organ transplant acute therapy drugs. Specifically, Genzyme is required to divest all contractual rights related to ILEX’s Campath®, an immunosuppressant antibody used in solid organ transplants to Schering AG.
The Strength of Competition in the Sale of Rx Contact Lenses: An FTC Study
Oil Industry Merger Effects
Announced Actions for January 14, 2005
General Electric Company, In the Matter of
General Electric was permitted to acquire InVision Technologies, Inc. with conditions that it divest InVision's YXLON x-ray nondestructive testing and inspection equipment to a Commission approved acquirer. According to the complaint issued with the consent order, the two firms are direct competitors in a highly concentrated market. The consent order protects competition in the United States market for specialized x-ray testing and inspection including standard x-ray cabinets; x-ray systems equipped with automated defect recognition software; and high-energy x-ray generators.
Cephalon, Inc., and CIMA Labs, Inc.
The consent order settled charges that Cephalon's proposed acquisition of Cima Labs, Inc. would allow Cephalon to continue its monopoly in the United States market for drugs that eliminate or reduce the spikes of severe pain that chronic cancer patients experience. The consent order required Cephalon to grant Barr Laboratories, Inc. a fully paid, irrevocable license to make and sell a generic version of Cephalon's breakthrough cancer pain drug, Actiq, in the United States.
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