Antitrust Enforcement in Health Care

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It has been almost a decade since the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an antitrust suit against the American Medical Association (AMA) that successfully challenged a number of anticompetitive ethical restrictions, including restrictions on the corporate or "contract" practice of medicine, on income-sharing arrangements between physicians and nonphysicians, and on truthful advertising and solicitation.1 The resulting controversy, which led the AMA to seek a partial antitrust exemption from Congress, has largely abated. The FTC and the AMA have subsequently been engaged in a constructive dialogue, which recognizes both the need for legitimate physician self-regulation and the responsibility of the FTC . . .

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