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Subject: physician groups 9. For example, the European car-rental industry. In 2014 the European Commission wrote to six international car- rental companies, including Avis, Europcar, and Hertz, aft er cases in which the price of car rentals variedconsiderably based on the country of residence of the customer; “Car Hire Prices ‘Unfairly Vary’ across the EU,” BBC News (August 12, 2014), http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28756674. The U.S. Department of Justice had this concern in a 2003 merger between Quest Diagnostics, Inc., and Unilab Corp., the two leading providers of clinical laboratory testing services to physician groups in Northern California: “[P]urchasers of these ser vices cannot economically resell them to other customers, and that suppliers of the ser vices can potentially identify the competitive alternatives available to physician group customers according to the group’s base of physicians and geographic coverage. This information indicated that a hypothetical monopolist could discriminate on price among customer types. Suppliers’ ability to price discriminate, combined with the fact that some types of customers had few competitive alternatives to contracting with suppliers that had a network of locations, led staff to defi ne markets based on customer categories”; Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice, Commentary on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (March 2006), 8, http://www.justice.gov/atr/commentary-horizontal-merger-guidelines. === Контекст: концевая сноска с обсуждением ценовой дискриминации. Вопрос: что такое physician groups?
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