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On June 3, 2025, Judge Matthew F. Kennelly denied motions to dismiss federal and state antitrust claims brought by healthcare providers (“plaintiffs”) against MultiPlan (a healthcare payment management service) and...more
FCA Complaint Filed Against One of Nation’s Largest Specialty Wound Care Providers - On April 4, the government filed a complaint against Vohra Wound Physicians Management LLC, its founder, Dr. Ameet Vohra, and VHS...more
Now is the time for health care providers to consider participating in the recent Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) antitrust class action settlement and the newly filed antitrust cases alleging widespread price fixing for...more
In this episode, AGG Healthcare attorneys Jason Bring and Matthew Lavin discuss the national MultiPlan litigation and its impact on healthcare providers. Jason and Matt break down the antitrust violations involving MultiPlan...more
Welcome to the first issue of Health Headlines, a newsletter created by lawyers in our Healthcare practice. In this issue, we cover Medicare Part C oversight, new cybersecurity legislation, healthcare lawsuits and deals, and...more
In the second quarter, federal and state antitrust enforcers continued their intense scrutiny of consolidation in the healthcare market by implementing new initiatives and laws designed to gather additional information...more
In the past year, healthcare systems and providers across the country have filed a series of antitrust lawsuits against MultiPlan Inc. and major US health insurers, alleging a hub-and-spoke conspiracy to fix and reduce...more
The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") recently resolved a criminal case with Teva Pharmaceuticals and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals via deferred prosecution agreements ("DPAs"), which include a novel remedy for...more
Previously relegated to purely civil enforcement, in the last year the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has increased its focus on pursuing criminal charges for anti-poach agreements between companies that attempt to...more
Since the last edition of the QCC, there has been a series of dramatic developments in the criminal antitrust enforcement space in the U.S. from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (Division)....more
The Antitrust Division won a preliminary skirmish against two co-defendants who challenged the criminal indictment against them charging price-fixing in the labor market. District Court Judge Mazzant, in the Eastern District...more
Antitrust enforcement against physicians and hospitals is common, but criminal antitrust prosecutions of health care providers are very rare. There were none for over 50 years, between 1940 and 1990. The Antitrust Division...more
A significant antitrust case was tentatively settled on the eve of trial, immediately before opening statements were set to begin in San Francisco Superior Court. Sutter Health, a large health system with over 20 hospitals,...more
At both the state and federal level, antitrust enforcement agencies continue to pursue successful challenges to physician practice transactions. This article summarizes two recent enforcement actions, as well as a new state...more
2018 saw a significant upswing in antitrust litigation against health care providers; 27 cases were filed in 2018 versus 17 in 2017. In the latest Antitrust Update for Health Care Providers, we discuss what caused the notable...more
The Attorney General of the State of Washington (the State) scored another victory last week in its federal antitrust challenge to Franciscan Health System’s (Franciscan) affiliations with two competing physician practices,...more
In a somewhat unexpected but highly significant move, United States District Judge David Procter (Northern District of Alabama), who is presiding over the In re Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation (Case No....more
As health care attorneys we are often called upon to consider the antitrust implications in a variety of contracts and transactions. For example, the establishment of clinically integrated health care networks requires...more
The Background: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ("ACCC") has proposed allowing health insurer Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia Limited ("HCF") and participating dentists to agree on the maximum...more
Since 2013, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has faced a series of purported class actions consolidated in the U.S. District Court in Alabama. In a recent decision focused upon the appropriate standard of review, the...more
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court on March 29, 2018 (the “Complaint”), alleging that Sutter Health (“Sutter”), one of Northern California’s...more
On Feb. 9, 2018, the Trump Administration released a 30-page report analyzing domestic and global factors influencing drug pricing. The report by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is expected to inform the HHS' Fiscal...more
As the trend of acquisitions of physician practices and mergers of hospitals continues, so does antitrust scrutiny of these deals. There was activity this week in three different proposed transactions that caught the...more
After five years of growth through a series of acquisitions, the Washington State Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit to thwart and unwind the most recent expansion efforts of Franciscan Health System (“CHI Franciscan”)...more
Antitrust- Washington Attorney General Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Health Care Providers Over Alleged Price-Fixing- Washington AG Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against health care providers Franciscan Health System...more