Healthcare Innovation May 14, 2024
Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter says the DOJ’s new task force will identify monopolies and practices in healthcare that increase costs and decrease quality.
On May 9, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new task force on Health Care Monopolies and Collusion (HCMC) within its Antitrust Division. In a press release, the Justice Department relayed that the “HCMC will guide the division’s enforcement strategy and policy approach in healthcare, including by facilitation policy advocacy, investigations and, where warranted, civil and criminal enforcement in healthcare markets.”
“Every year, Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care, money that is increasingly being gobbled up by a small number of payers, providers, and dominant intermediaries that have consolidated their way to...
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