Argentina: CNDC looks into possible nation-wide private clinic collusion

Argentina’s National Commission for the Defense of Competition (CNDC) has said it will investigate whether private clinics throughout the country have formed a cartel to inflate the price of services.

In mid-August 2017 the CNDC fined 15 clinics in Salta for a total of nearly 23 million pesos. The agency determined the existence of a cartel operating through a province-wide federation to coordinate prices.

Since then, the competition authority suspects that the same practices could have spread to the rest of the country. “We have elements to believe that this also affects the Northeast, the Northwest, the Mesopotamia region, and Santa Fe, and could spread to the rest of the country,” said CNDC director Esteban Greco.
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