DOJ launches task force on anticompetitive practices in healthcare
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Aaron Nicodemus2024-05-10T19:30:00
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division created a new task force to examine collusion and monopolies in the healthcare industry.
The Task Force on Health Care Monopolies and Collusion (HCMC) “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 Thursday in a press release.
The new task force will consider competition concerns regarding payer-provider consolidation, serial acquisitions, labor and quality of care, medical billing, healthcare information technology services, access to and misuse of healthcare data, and more, the DOJ said.
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