For Release:
August 4, 2003
FTC/DOJ Hearings on Health Care and Competition
Law and Policy
Agenda for September 24-26,
2003 and September 30 - October 1, 2003 Sessions
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice
(DOJ) today released a detailed agenda for the final sessions
of their joint hearings on health care and competition law
and policy to be held September 24-26, 2003, and September
30 - October 1, 2003. These hearings will be held at the
FTC Conference Center at 601 New Jersey Ave, N.W.,Washington
DC. As always, morning sessions will be held from 9:15 a.m.
- 12:30 p.m. and afternoon sessions will be held from 2:00
p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The specific sessions at this set of hearings are as follows:
Date |
Morning Session Topic |
Arternoon Session Topic |
September 24 |
Physician Product and Market Definition |
Physician Information Sharing |
September 25 |
Physician IPAs -- Patterns and Benefits of Integration |
Physician IPAs - Messenger Model |
September 26 |
Physician Unionization |
Group Purchasing Organizations |
September 30 |
International Perspectives on Health Care and Competition
Law and Policy |
Medicare and Medicaid |
October 1 |
Remedies: Civil/Criminal |
None |
As noted in the Federal Register notice
announcing this event, any interested person may submit written
comments
responsive to any of the topics to be addressed. Comments
directed at a particular subject considered during a particular
session of hearings must be submitted no later than 45 days
after the date of that specific hearing session. Comments
on broader subjects within the general scope of the hearings
may be submitted at any time after the publication of this
notice, but no later than November 28, 2003.
Written comments should be submitted
in both hard-copy and electronic form. Six hard copies
of each submission should
be addressed to Donald S. Clark, Office of the Secretary,
Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, DC 20580. Submissions should be captioned: “Comments
Regarding Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and
Policy.” Electronic submissions may be sent by electronic
mail to healthcare@ftc.gov. Alternatively, electronic submissions
may be filed on a 3-1/2 inch computer disk with a label stating
the name of the submitter and the name and version of the
word processing program used to create the document.
Information about the health care hearings is available on the Web sites for
the hearings, http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/healthcarehearings/ or http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/hchearing.htm and
from the FTC’s Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20580.
FTC MEDIA CONTACT:
Cathy MacFarlane
Office of Public Affairs
202-326-3657
FTC STAFF CONTACT:
David Hyman
Special Counsel, Office of the General Counsel
202-326-2622
DOJ MEDIA CONTACT:
Gina Talamona
Office of Public Affairs
202-514-2007
DOJ STAFF CONTACT:
William Berlin
Litigation I Section
202-616-5938
(http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/healthcare.htm)
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Related
Documents:
Agenda for Joint FTC/DOJ
Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy
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