Home Health Care News November 12, 2024
The Department of Justice (DOJ) officially sued Tuesday to block UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) takeover of Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED), calling the deal “presumptively anticompetitive and illegal.”
In its complaint, the DOJ laid out multiple gripes it had with the deal, indicating that it would negatively impact patients, payers and home health workers.
“We are challenging this merger because home health and hospice patients and their families experiencing some of the most difficult moments of their lives deserve affordable, high quality care options,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement. “The Justice Department will not hesitate to check unlawful consolidation and monopolization in the health care market that threatens to harm vulnerable patients, their families, and health care...
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