Fierce Healthcare May 9, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday it has established a new task force to take on healthcare monopolies and collusion.
The task force, called HCMC for short, will guide the division’s enforcement strategy and policy approach in healthcare, including by facilitating policy advocacy, investigations and, where warranted, civil and criminal enforcement in healthcare markets, the agency said in a press release.
The task force will consider “widespread competition concerns” shared by patients, healthcare professionals, businesses and entrepreneurs, including “issues regarding payer-provider consolidation, serial acquisitions, labor and quality of care, medical billing, healthcare IT services and access to and misuse of health care data,” the DOJ said.
“Every year, Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care, money that...
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