For Release:
September 16, 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 Avenue,
N.W., Washington, DC. The morning sessions will be
held from 9:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. All afternoon sessions will
be
held from 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. except for the Friday, September
26 session, which will
begin at 1:30 p.m. and end at 4:30 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:
Sarah Mathias
Office of the General Counsel
202-326-3254
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/2003/030915hcpress.htm)
|
Related
Documents:
Agenda
for Joint FTC/DOJ Hearings on Health Care and Competition
Law and Policy
|