Puerto Rico Dental Association settles FTC price-fixing & boycotting charges.

An association of 1,800 Puerto Rican dentists has agreed to avoid the illegal conduct alleged in an FTC complaint that charges it with restraining competition among dentists in Puerto Rico by organizing boycotts and barring its members from engaging in truthful, non-deceptive advertising.

The Colegio de Cirujanos Dentistas de Puerto Rico sought to raise prices for Puerto Rican dental services with boycotts and refusals to deal, according to the FTC Analysis of Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment.

Colegio allegedly: (a) fixed the terms under which individual dentists dealt with health insurers and other health care service payers; (b) orchestrated or …