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Big hospital companies have been filing a wave of antitrust lawsuits this week against Elevance Health, Health Care Service Corp. and other Blue Cross and Blue Shield carriers.

The plaintiffs — which include health system giants like Adventist Health, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Commonspirit Health, Community Health Systems, Temple University Health and the University of Pennsylvania Health System — opted out of the big $2.8 billion antitrust settlement that the Blues agreed to accept in October.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.

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