First, it’s important to note that anyone who can pay the filing fee can bring suit and the Biden administration’s FTC under its Chair, Lina Khan, has been extremely aggressive in filing them, with pretty shoddy results.
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But what about the rising price of settling allegations of pharmaceutical price-fixing?
It is a crime, a violation of antitrust law, to conspire to allocate a market, thus driving up the price. It is particularly egregious when the conspiracy involves the market for medical care for cancer treatment.
It is a crime, a violation of antitrust law, to conspire to allocate a market, thus driving up the price. It is particularly egregious when the conspiracy involves the market for medical care for cancer treatment.
It’s a crime, a violation of antitrust law, to conspire to allocate a market, thus driving up price. It’s particularly egregious when the conspiracy involves the market for medical care for cancer treatment.
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law.
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector.
Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector, including, notably, in connection with monopolization through mergers in the market for physician services. In 2017, the FTC challenged the proposed merger of physician group Mid Dakota Clinic into Sanford Health, an […]
Major League Baseball has an antitrust exemption. It also has a level playing field. The players, as employees, can collectively bargain.
Health insurers have an antitrust exemption in respect of coordinated gathering of data for ratemaking. The playing field isn’t particularly level. Physicians can’t share pricing information or collectively bargain for payment rates.