The White House. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
The Trump administration's antitrust lawyers in the Justice Department are siding with the health care providers in the big dispute over health insurers' use of automated systems to determine reimbursement rates for out-of-network care.
Hospitals, physicians, group medical practices and other plaintiffs have filed a wave of federal court suits accusing MultiPlan, a company that manages health care provider networks, of violating federal antitrust law by using computers and decision-making algorithms to hold down the prices paid for out-of-network care in what the plaintiffs say is an unfair way.
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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.
