Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust chief said Thursday that his division will be "upping our game" with a new task force dedicated to tackling health care monopolies and collusion.
"Every year, Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care, money that is increasingly being gobbled up by a small number of payers, providers and dominant intermediaries that have consolidated their way to power in communities across the country," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jonathan Kanter said in a statement. "[T]he task force will identify and root out monopolies and collusive practices that increase costs, decrease quality and create single points of failure in the health care industry."
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Maydeen Merino
Maydeen Merino is a regulatory reporter, covering the DOJ, FTC, SEC and EPA. She can be reached at [email protected].
