DOJ backs health care providers in MultiPlan ‘price fixing’ antitrust suit
The Trump administration says it has a strong interest in suits involving allegations of companies using decision-making algorithms to set prices.
By Allison Bell |
March 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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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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