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Michael F. (Mike) Saunders

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FTC PROSCRIPTION FOR ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT IN HEALTH CARE

On June 19, 2014, Deborah Feinstein, the current Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, addressed the Fifth National Accountable Care Organization Summit in Washington, D.C. Her speech, entitled “Antitrust Enforcement in Health Care: Proscription, Not Prescription, advised that “there is no tension between rigorous antitrust enforcement and bona fide efforts to coordinate care, so long as those efforts do not result in the accumulation of market power.”

FTC Proscription for Antitrust Enforcement in Health Care

On June 19, 2014, Deborah Feinstein, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, addressed the Fifth National Accountable Care Organization Summit in Washington, D.C.  Her full comments, entitled “Antitrust Enforcement in Health Care: Proscription, not Prescription,” are available on the FTC’s website: www.ftc.gov.