Healthcare Innovation November 12, 2024
DOJ: Eliminating the competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys would harm patients who receive home health and hospice services
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a November 12 press release that it, together with the Attorneys General of Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block UnitedHealth Group’s proposed $3.3 billion acquisition of the Louisiana-based home health and hospice services provider Amedisys Inc.
Allegedly, the transaction would eliminate competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys (the Defendants). “Since UnitedHealth’s prior acquisition of Amedisys’s home health and hospice rival LHC Group Inc. in 2023, Defendants have been two of the largest home health and hospice providers in the United States,” the press brief stated. “Eliminating the...
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