Lexology May 10, 2024
On May 9, Assistant Attorney General (AG) Jonathan Kanter announced that Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division has formed a Task Force on Healthcare Monopolies and Collusion (HCMC). The initiative will bring together civil and criminal prosecutors, economists, health care industry experts, technologists, data scientists, investigators, and policy advisors to identify and address risks to competition in health care, including increased consolidation and coordination of providers and insurers, higher rates, medical billing, quality of care, suppression of wages and labor mobility, IT services, and misuse of health data.
The creation of the task force was guided by three principles:
Health care has changed and needs to be recognized as a multisided platform: The DOJ characterized health care companies...
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