| Focus of Commitments/ Remedies |
The commitments work together to address the competition concerns identified by:
- Helping competing laboratories offer a wider range of IVD tests and be better able to compete for customers, and gauge demand to consider in-house expansion;
- Lowering contractual barriers for customers to switch to other suppliers, and increase competing laboratories’ incentives to expand; and
- Mitigating the risk of a price increase or a degradation of quality by the merged entity during the commitment period, for customers who have limited alternatives to switch to at present.
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