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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Feb. 11, 2022

Trial in federal antitrust lawsuit against Sutter Health begins

Plaintiffs say the company’s policy of requiring insurance companies to include all of their networks or none at all is anti-competitive.

The trial of a federal antitrust lawsuit against Sutter Health continues this week with plaintiffs accusing the company of illegally requiring insurance companies to include Sutter in all of their networks or none at all.

Plaintiffs’ lawyer Matthew L. Cantor said in opening arguments on Thursday that the policy involved Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield of California, Health Net or United HealthCare and led to 3 million people overpayi...

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