83 FR 63674 - Sunshine Act Meetings
INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 237 (December 11, 2018)
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 237 (December 11, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 237 (Tuesday, December 11, 2018)] [Notices] [Page 63674] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-26925] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION [USITC SE-18-058] Sunshine Act Meetings TIME AND DATE: December 14, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: (202) 205-2000. STATUS: Open to the public. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 1. Agendas for future meetings: None. 2. Minutes. 3. Ratification List. 4. Vote on Inv. Nos. 701-TA-598 and 731-TA-1408 (Final)(Rubber Bands from China). The Commission is currently scheduled to complete and file its determinations and views of the Commission by December 27, 2018. 5. Outstanding action jackets: None. In accordance with Commission policy, subject matter listed above, not disposed of at the scheduled meeting, may be carried over to the agenda of the following meeting. By order of the Commission. Issued: December 7, 2018. Lisa Barton, Secretary to the Commission. [FR Doc. 2018-26925 Filed 12-7-18; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 7020-02-P
![63674 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 237 / Tuesday, December 11, 2018 / Notices
handbook_on_electronic_filing.pdf). 1. Agendas for future meetings: None. its use of certain steering methods and
Persons with questions regarding filing 2. Minutes. transparency.
should contact the Secretary (202–205– 3. Ratification List. Copies of the Complaint, proposed
2000). 4. Vote on Inv. Nos. 701–TA–598 and Final Judgment, and Competitive Impact
Any person desiring to submit a 731–TA–1408 (Final)(Rubber Bands Statement are available for inspection
document to the Commission in from China). The Commission is on the Antitrust Division’s website at
confidence must request confidential currently scheduled to complete and file http://www.justice.gov/atr and at the
treatment. All such requests should be its determinations and views of the Office of the Clerk of the United States
directed to the Secretary to the Commission by December 27, 2018. District Court for the Western District of
Commission and must include a full 5. Outstanding action jackets: None. North Carolina. Copies of these
In accordance with Commission materials may be obtained from the
statement of the reasons why the
policy, subject matter listed above, not Antitrust Division upon request and
Commission should grant such
disposed of at the scheduled meeting, payment of the copying fee set by
treatment. See 19 CFR 201.6. Documents
may be carried over to the agenda of the Department of Justice regulations.
for which confidential treatment by the
following meeting. Public comment is invited within 60
Commission is properly sought will be
treated accordingly. All information, By order of the Commission. days of the date of this notice. Such
including confidential business Issued: December 7, 2018. comments, including the name of the
information and documents for which Lisa Barton, submitter, and responses thereto, will be
confidential treatment is properly Secretary to the Commission. posted on the Antitrust Division’s
sought, submitted to the Commission for [FR Doc. 2018–26925 Filed 12–7–18; 4:15 pm] website, filed with the Court, and, under
purposes of this Investigation may be BILLING CODE 7020–02–P certain circumstances, published in the
disclosed to and used: (i) By the Federal Register. Comments should be
Commission, its employees and Offices, directed to Peter J. Mucchetti, Chief,
and contract personnel (a) for DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Healthcare and Consumer Products
developing or maintaining the records Section, Antitrust Division, Department
of this or a related proceeding, or (b) in Antitrust Division of Justice, 450 Fifth Street NW, Suite
internal investigations, audits, reviews, 4100, Washington, DC 20530
and evaluations relating to the United States et al. v. The Charlotte- (telephone: 202–307–0001).
programs, personnel, and operations of Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, d/b/a
Carolinas Healthcare System; Patricia A. Brink,
the Commission including under 5
Proposed Final Judgment and Director of Civil Enforcement.
U.S.C. Appendix 3; or (ii) by U.S.
government employees and contract Competitive Impact Statement United States District Court for the Western
personnel, solely for cybersecurity District of North Carolina Charlotte Division
Notice is hereby given pursuant to the
purposes (all contract personnel will Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, United States of America and the State of
sign appropriate nondisclosure 15 U.S.C. § 16(b)–(h), that a proposed North Carolina, Plaintiffs, v. The Charlotte-
agreements). All nonconfidential Final Judgment, Stipulation, and Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, d/b/a
written submissions will be available for Carolinas Healthcare System, Defendant.
Competitive Impact Statement have
public inspection at the Office of the been filed with the United States Case No. 3:16–cv–00311–RJC–DCK
Secretary and on EDIS. Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr.
District Court for the Western District of
The authority for the Commission’s North Carolina in United States and COMPLAINT
determination is contained in section State of North Carolina. v. The The United States of America and the State
337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital of North Carolina bring this civil antitrust
amended (19 U.S.C. 1337), and in Part Authority, d/b/a Carolinas HealthCare action to enjoin Defendant, The Charlotte-
210 of the Commission’s Rules of System, Civil Action No. 3:16–cv– Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, d/b/a
Practice and Procedure (19 CFR part 00311–RJC–DCK. On June 6, 2016, the Carolinas HealthCare System (‘‘CHS’’), from
210). United States and the State of North using unlawful contract restrictions that
prohibit commercial health insurers in the
By order of the Commission. Carolina filed a Complaint alleging that Charlotte area from offering patients financial
Issued: December 4, 2018. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital benefits to use less-expensive healthcare
Lisa Barton, Authority formerly known as Carolinas services offered by CHS’s competitors. These
Secretary to the Commission. HealthCare System (or CHS) and now steering restrictions reduce competition
[FR Doc. 2018–26740 Filed 12–10–18; 8:45 am] doing business as Atrium Health resulting in harm to Charlotte area
(‘‘Atrium’’) included provisions in its consumers, employers, and insurers.
BILLING CODE 7020–02–P
contracts with health insurers that I. CHS AND ITS UNLAWFUL STEERING
restricted insurers from steering their RESTRICTIONS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE members to lower-cost, high-quality 1. CHS is a North Carolina not-for-profit
COMMISSION providers, in violation of Section 1 of corporation providing healthcare services
the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The with its principal place of business in
[USITC SE–18–058] proposed Final Judgment, filed Charlotte. Its flagship facility is Carolinas
November 15, 2018, enjoins Atrium Medical Center, a large general acute-care
Sunshine Act Meetings from (1) enforcing provisions in its hospital located in downtown Charlotte. It
current insurer contracts that restrict also operates nine other general acute-care
amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1
TIME AND DATE:December 14, 2018 at hospitals in the Charlotte area.
11:00 a.m. steering and transparency; (2) having
contract provisions with an insurer that 2. CHS is the dominant hospital system in
PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW, the Charlotte area, with approximately a 50
would prohibit, prevent or significantly percent share of the relevant market, and
Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: restrain the insurer from using certain
(202) 205–2000. 2014 revenue of approximately $8.7 billion.
steering methods or providing Its closest competitor by size is Novant,
STATUS: Open to the public. transparency; and (3) penalizing, or which owns five general acute care hospitals
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: threatening to penalize, any insurer for in the Charlotte area and has less than half
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