For Your Information: August 6, 2002 FTC Releases Agenda for Health Care and Competition Law and Policy Workshop
to be Held September 9-10, 2002, in Washington, D.C.
The Federal Trade Commission has released an agenda for the
workshop on competition law and policy for health care financing and delivery, which will
be held on September 9-10, 2002, in Washington, D.C. The workshop will consider the impact
of competition law and policy on the cost, quality, and availability of health care, and
the incentives for innovation in the field. The agenda is available at the Web page for
the workshop, which can be found at http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/healthcare/index.htm.
The workshop will feature presentations by representatives of
various branches of the federal agencies and state governments and a number of academics.
There also will be panel discussions on each of the following subjects: 1) Health Care
Services: Provider Integration; 2) Health Insurance: Payor/Provider Issues; 3) Hospital
Group Purchasing Organizations; 4) Generics and Branded Pharmaceuticals; and 5) Consumer
Protection and Pharmaceuticals: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Off-Label Promotion.
Each panel will have approximately six invited panelists, who will each speak for 10
minutes. During each panel, a moderated discussion will follow the presentations of the
panelists. Each panel has been given a series of questions to provide a general framework
for presentations and discussion. The questions for each panel are provided on the agenda.
The workshop will last from 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on
Monday, September 9, 2002, and from 9:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 10,
2002. The workshop will be held in room 432 at the FTC headquarters, 600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
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; such comments should be submitted no later than September 30, 2002.
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, D.C. 20580.
Submissions should be captioned: "Comments Regarding Competition Law and Policy &
Health Care." Electronic submissions may be sent by electronic mail to hcclp@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. |