- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2024-04-19T11:00:00
Three federal agencies partnered to create an online portal for the public to report instances of anticompetitive practices in the healthcare sector.
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the online portal Thursday. The portal will allow the public to report potentially unfair and anticompetitive healthcare practices, according to a joint press release.
“The launch of the new portal advances the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to lower healthcare and prescription drug costs and help create more competitive healthcare markets that are fairer to patients, providers, payers and workers,” the release said.
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