Tag: Competition

FTC Settles Price-Fixing Charges Brought Against Baton Rouge Physician Groups and Their Agent

Date

July 22, 2003

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a proposed consent agreement with a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based independent practice association (IPA), the three orthopedic practices whose doctors are...

Southern Union Company and CMS Energy Corporation

Southern Union Company settled antitrust concerns stemming from its proposed acquisition of the Panhandle pipeline from CMS Energy Corporation. The consent order permitted the acquisition but required Southern Union to terminate an agreement to manage the Central pipeline which transports natural gas to several counties in Missouri and Kansas.

Type of Action

Administrative

Last Updated

July 22, 2003

FTC Matter/File Number

0310068

Docket Number

C-4087

Anesthesia Service Medical Group, Inc.

Two anesthesiologists groups settled charges that they entered into joint agreements to establish fees and services from Grossmont Medical Hospital in San Diego County. Specifically, the groups agreed on fees that both would demand from health care insurance companies and other third party payers for taking call for obstetrics and providing services to uninsured emergency room patients. Together, the two groups are composed of approximately 200 physicians that provide competing anesthesiology services in the San Diego area.

Type of Action

Administrative

Last Updated

July 15, 2003

FTC Matter/File Number

0210006

Docket Number

C-4085

Report

2003 Report

Date

July 1, 2003

2003 Report (145.08 KB)

Nestl- Dreyer's Settle FTC Charges

Date

June 25, 2003

Nestlé S.A. and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc. have agreed to divest three of Dreyer's brands and Nestlé's distribution assets to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their merger would lessen...

Carlsbad Physician Association, Inc.; and William J. Baggs, M.D.; Srichand S. Dara, M.D.; Glen Moore; James J. Purpura, D.O.; Deborah J. Schenck, M.D.; Charles L. Secora, M.D.; Majid A. Syed, M.D.; and Richard L. Zizza, M.D

A New Mexico physician organization settled charges that it and its members entered into agreements to fix prices and to refuse to deal with third party payers and other health care plans except on collectively agreed-upon terms.

Type of Action

Administrative

Last Updated

June 20, 2003

FTC Matter/File Number

0310002

Docket Number

C-4081

Prepared Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Competition In the Pharmaceutical Industry

Date

June 17, 2003

Timothy J. Muris, Former Chairman

Prepared Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Competition In the Pharmaceutical Industry (130.34 KB)

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Orson Swindle On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce

Date

June 11, 2003

Orson Swindle, Former Commissioner

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Orson Swindle On Reauthorization (30.61 KB)

Prepared Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Date

June 11, 2003

Timothy J. Muris, Former Chairman

Prepared Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization (28.37 KB)

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Thomas B. Leary On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Date

June 11, 2003

Thomas B. Leary, Former Commissioner

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Thomas B. Leary On Reauthorization (28.74 KB)

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Thomas B. Leary On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce

Date

June 11, 2003

Thomas B. Leary, Former Commissioner

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Thomas B. Leary On Reauthorization (27.94 KB)

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Date

June 11, 2003

Mozelle W. Thompson, Former Commissioner

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson On Reauthorization (21.11 KB)

Prepared Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce

Date

June 11, 2003

Timothy J. Muris, Former Chairman

Prepared Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization (167.17 KB)

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce

Date

June 11, 2003

Mozelle W. Thompson, Former Commissioner

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson On Reauthorization (28.79 KB)

Prepared Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Date

June 11, 2003

Timothy J. Muris, Former Chairman

Prepared Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization (167.9 KB)

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Orson Swindle On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Date

June 11, 2003

Orson Swindle, Former Commissioner

Prepared Statement of Commissioner Orson Swindle On Reauthorization (30.76 KB)

Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, Committee on Energy and Commerce

Date

June 11, 2003

Timothy J. Muris, Former Chairman

Statement of Chairman Timothy J. Muris On Reauthorization (28.32 KB)

FTC Commissioners Testify on Agency's Reauthorization Request

Date

June 11, 2003

Providing Federal Trade Commission reauthorization testimony today separately before the Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure of the Senate Commerce Committee and the...

MSC.Software Corporation

MSC settled charges that its 1999 acquisitions of Universal Analytics, Inc. and Computerized Structural Analysis & Research Corp. eliminated competition between the three firms in the development and application of engineering software. The administrative complaint issued October 2001, alleged that the two acquisitions would eliminate competition for advanced versions of Nastran, an engineering simulation software program used throughout the aerospace and automotive industries. The consent order required MSC to divest at least one clone copy of its current advance Nastran through royalty-free perpetual, non-exclusive licenses to one or two acquirers approved by the Commission.

Type of Action

Administrative

Last Updated

June 10, 2003

FTC Matter/File Number

0010077

Docket Number

9299