15 results for 'cat:"Antitrust" AND cat:"Health Care"'.
J. Daniel grants the American Board of Psychology and Neurology’s motion to dismiss a group of psychiatrists’ antitrust claims. The Board has a monopoly on psychiatric and neurological certifications in the US that are beneficial to finding work in the field, and it requires certified psychiatrists to take “maintenance of certification” programs every few years to maintain those certifications. Despite this, the court finds the plaintiff psychiatrists have failed to properly state their antitrust claims.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Daniel, Filed On: May 13, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv1614, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care
J. Gorton denies in part a pharmaceutical company’s motion to dismiss a class action brought against it by health and welfare funds of labor unions for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive practices, causing the funds to overpay for prescription asthma medication. “Because no generic QVAR existed at the time [the pharmaceutical company] purportedly discontinued QVAR in favor of QVAR Redihaler, asthma patients necessarily had to be transitioned onto QVAR Redihaler.”
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Gorton, Filed On: May 7, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv11131, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Labor / Unions
J. Bell orders a health system and multiple third parties, including Morgan Stanley & Co., Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Aetna, to carefully review their requests to seal what they believe to be highly-sensitive information during this litigation. The health system and third parties are concerned that any financial information revealed to the public could potentially cause economic damage. However, not all information is that sensitive in nature and the public has a right to know information in its own interest. Thus, the health system and third parties are ordered to reevaluate their requests and specifically show how the information would be potentially injurious to them before the court makes a decision.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Bell, Filed On: April 30, 2024, Case #: 5:24cv28, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, First Amendment
J. Morrison grants the health care provider's motion to dismiss, ruling the orthopedic surgeons fail to establish anti-trust standing. There are at least four other hospitals or employment opportunities in the same area as the health care provider, while the surgeons also established their own surgical facility after they left their positions with the provider, all of which proves the provider does not have a monopoly on the relevant area.
Court: USDC Southern District of Ohio, Judge: Morrison, Filed On: April 25, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv2145, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, Employment, health Care
J. Tharp partially grants a health care networking service’s motion to compel the production of documents from a number of pharmacies. The pharmacies allege the health care networking service has an illegal monopoly over e-prescription routing and patient eligibility transmission. The court compels the pharmacies to produce sales records of prescription medications to Michigan patients, but declines the networking service’s request for the pharmacies to produce a privilege log.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Tharp, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 1:19cv6627, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Discovery
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J. Reidinger denies a health care system’s motion to dismiss multiple municipalities’ allegations of monopolizing the inpatient acute and outpatient care markets in their areas. The system argues the municipalities fail to state a claim. However, evidence shows that the system has violated the Sherman Act by using so-called “all-or-nothing” requirements in its contracts with health insurers, systematically cornering the market in the municipalities.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Reidinger, Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv114, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Trade
J. Bell imposes a temporary restraining order on a hospital system until after a decision is made regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for a preliminary injunction in this antitrust case. The court also outlines instructions regarding disagreements between the parties, including discovery, witnesses and evidence.
Court: USDC Western District of North Carolina, Judge: Bell, Filed On: February 12, 2024, Case #: 5:24cv28, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Trade
J. Saris denies in part the American Red Cross’s motion to dismiss antitrust and defamation claims brought against it by a biomedical company for allegedly monopolizing mitigation services by using another company’s pathogen reduction treatment on all of the blood platelets it sells. All of the antitrust claims are dismissed, as well as one of the defamation claims, but two of the defamation claims are not because the biomedical company adequately pleads that it made deceptive statements in Massachusetts to the biomedical company’s Massachusetts customers in an FAQ and newsletter.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Saris, Filed On: January 19, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv10335, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Defamation
J. Ramos grants the government a preliminary injunction to bar the proposed acquisition of DeepIntent by IQVIA. The government has carried its burden of showing that the merger will substantially lessen competition in the field of programmatic advertising to health care professionals by merging DeepIntent with Lasso, a division of IQVIA, which are two of three leading firms in the industry.
Court: USDC Southern District of New York, Judge: Ramos, Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv6188, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care
J. Jensen denies an Illinois city’s motion to compel an individual’s compliance with a subpoena. The city accuses the defendant healthcare management company and associated pharma companies of conspiring to assert monopoly control of the drug Acthar, used to treat the disease proteinuria. The city wished to enforce a subpoena on one of the defendant companies’ attorneys, but the court finds that enforcing the subpoena on the lawyer would violate attorney-client privilege.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Jensen, Filed On: December 11, 2023, Case #: 3:17cv50107, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Attorney Discipline
J. Barbier grants summary judgment to a group of insurers, dismissing claims of federal health care violations by primary care physicians one day after rejecting their antitrust claim, effectively gutting the doctors’ suit alleging they conspired to reject their claims for allergy services. The doctors unsuccessfully sought a ruling the insurers were violating Medicare and Medicaid regulations aimed at protecting health care providers from discrimination. None of the statutes cited provide the doctors with a right to sue the insurers, which the physicians acknowledge by their failure to respond to the insurers’ argument on this point.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Barbier, Filed On: November 28, 2023, Case #: 2:18cv399, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, Evidence, health Care
J. Gonzalez dismisses an antitrust complaint that alleges United Healthcare, a health care insurance provider, leveraged its dominant market power to force anesthesia practices located in the New York metropolitan area to accept dramatically lower reimbursement rates, in some cases 80% less, for out-of-network services provided to public sector employees enrolled under its Empire insurance plan. The care providers fail to allege the market as a whole suffered significant harm as a result of the administrator’s actions for the purposes of its antitrust claims.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Gonzalez, Filed On: November 21, 2023, Case #: 2:22cv4040, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Insurance
J. Peterson partially grants the health care system's motion to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit from two self-insured employers claiming the system violated federal antitrust law by using price fixing, unfair contracts and other anti-competitive practices to acquire a stranglehold on the market for inpatient and outpatient care in north-central Wisconsin at higher than average prices to consumers. Most of the employers' claims are stated and supported plausibly enough to avoid dismissal, but two claims alleging the system's exclusive dealing and conspiratorial efforts to influence competitors to reject reference-based pricing are dismissed.
Court: USDC Western District of Wisconsin, Judge: Peterson, Filed On: October 17, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv580, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Class Action
J. Daniel grants the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s motion to dismiss an antitrust class action brought by a class of psychiatrists and neurologists. The class claims the board has illegal monopoly control over issuing certification for practicing psychiatrists and neurologists, via a specific certification program that practitioners must pay for. However, the court finds that the class has failed to sufficiently show how this program is distinct from other “continuing educational products” which are offered by other providers.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Daniel, Filed On: October 4, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv1614, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: antitrust, health Care, Class Action