Table of
Contents
Workshop Materials
- FTC Health Care Workshop Agenda
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Press
Release Announcing the Workshop
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Federal
Register Notice Announcing the Workshop ()
Bureau of Competition
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Federal
Trade Commission Announces Formation of Merger Litigation Task Force (August 28, 2002)
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Denver-Area
Physician Practice Groups and their Agent Agree to Settle FTC Charges of Fixing Fees
(August 20, 2002)
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Dallas-Fort
Worth-Area Physicians Group Agrees to Settle (August 20, 2002)
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Consent
Order Resolves Charges that Biovail and Elan Agreement Unreasonably Restrained Competition
in Market for Generic Anti-Hypertension Drug (June 27, 2002)
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Denver-Area Physician Groups Agree to Settle FTC Charges of Fixing Fees (May 13, 2002)
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Wrongful
"Orange Book" Listing Raises Red Flag with FTC; Leads to Consent Order with
Biovail Corp. Concerning its Drug Tiazac (April 23, 2002)
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Muris
Testifies on Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry (April 23, 2002)
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Napa
Valley OB/GYN Group Settles FTC Antitrust Charges (April 5, 2002)
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FTC
Staff Opposes Alaska PhysiciansÆ Health Plan Legislation (March 25, 2002)
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FTC
Advisory Opinion Letter to MedSouth, Inc. (February 19, 2002)
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FTC
Staff Opposes Washington State Proposal to Allow Physician Collective Bargaining
(February 14, 2002)
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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
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FTC Files
Second Civil Contempt Action Against Enforma Defendants: New Contempt Charges Filed
Against Enforma Employee and an Additional Company (July 25, 2002)
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FTC
Charges Three Top-Selling Electronic Abdominal Exercise Belts with Making False Claims
(May 8, 2002)
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FTC Seeks
Civil Contempt Liability for Defendants' Violations of Court Order (January 10, 2002)
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FTC
Files Charges Against Additional Defendants Involved in the Deceptive Advertising of
"The Enforma System" (September 1, 2000)
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Marketers
of "The Enforma System" Settle FTC Charges of Deceptive Advertising for Their
Weight Loss Products (April 26, 2000)
Bioterrorism
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FTC
Announces First Two Enforcement Actions Against Purveyors of Bioterrorism Defense Products
(February 27, 2002)
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FTC
Broadens Warnings to Marketers of Bioterrorism Defense Products (January 2, 2002)
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FTC
Cracks Down on Marketers of Bogus Bioterrorism Defense Products (November 19, 2001)
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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
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Eli
Lilly Settles FTC Charges Concerning Security Breach (January 18, 2002)
Functional Foods
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Wonder
Bread Marketers Settle FTC Charges (March 6, 2002)
Health Fraud
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Company
Touting Unproven Cancer Treatment Agrees to Settle FTC Charges (July 24, 2002)
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"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)
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"Operation
Cure.All" Wages New Battle in Ongoing War Against Internet Health Fraud (June 14,
2001)
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"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)
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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 |