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Industry News, Antitrust, Tying and Bundling

VitalRads: The Full Story

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“Brian Poteet didn’t build veterinary teleradiology — he observed how it was done at PetRays, departed, and started his own company. What he built was eventually good. What happened to it is something else: the VITALRADS trademark was transferred to a private equity consolidator in 2018 without any public announcement, the brand now sits on a $1.7 billion distressed debt pile, and independent clinics are being steered to it through a “membership organization” that is operated by the same corporate owner. None of this is disclosed at the point of care.”

Compliance, Antitrust, Fee Splitting

When the Right Enforcer Acts: The Federal Prosecution of U.S. Compounding and What It Means for Veterinary Teleradiology

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“The federal government prosecuted a six-year veterinary kickback scheme involving a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, secured a corporate guilty plea, a jury conviction, two individual guilty pleas, and up to $21 million in criminal exposure — all in a context where the primary federal anti-kickback statute did not apply. The tools it used are available to every state attorney general in the country. The conduct those tools were used to address is structurally present in the veterinary teleradiology industry today.”

Antitrust, Compliance, Industry, Tying and Bundling, Uncategorized

The Stack: How IDEXX Built a Vertical Monopoly Over Veterinary Imaging — From the X-Ray Machine to the Radiologist’s Report

Antitrust, Compliance, Industry, Tying and Bundling, Uncategorized /

“IDEXX has spent fifteen years acquiring every layer of the veterinary imaging workflow — hardware, PACS, software, teleradiology, and the residency pipeline that trains new radiologists. The result is a referral architecture that routes toward IDEXX by design and away from everyone else by friction.”

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