FTC v. HCA Healthcare & Steward Health Care
District Court: District of Utah Status: Pending
HCA Healthcare, the second largest health system with six hospitals in the Wasatch Front region of Utah, proposed to acquire five hospitals from Steward Health …
Saint Francis Hospital v. Hartford HealthCare
District Court: District of Connecticut Status: Pending
In February 2021, Saint Francis Hospital sued Hartford HealthCare, one of two major health systems in Connecticut, alleging that Hartford’s physician practice acquisitions and resulting …
Federal Trade Commission and State of Rhode Island v. Lifespan and Care New England Health
District Court: District of Rhode Island Status: Decided
Rhode Island’s two largest nonprofit hospital systems, Lifespan and Care New England, abandoned their merger plans in the face of a joint antitrust challenge from …
United States and State of Minnesota and State of New York v. UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare
District Court: District of Columbia Status: Decided
The DOJ, along with attorneys general of New York and Minnesota, filed a lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia to block UnitedHealth …
Pasadena Hospital d/b/a Huntington Hospital and Cedars-Sinai Health System v. California and Rob Bonta
District Court: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Status: Decided
Pasadena Hospital d/b/a Cedars-Sinai Health System (Cedars-Sinai) and Huntington Memorial Hospital (Huntington) announced their intended affiliation in March 2020. The California AG’s office was concerned …
Federal Trade Commission and State of Tennessee v. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare
District Court: Western District of Tennessee, Western Division Status: Decided
Joined by the Tennessee attorney general, the FTC filed in federal court for a preliminary injunction to block Methodist Le Bonheur’s proposed $350 million acquisition …
United States v. Geisinger Health and Evangelical Community Hospital
District Court: Middle District of Pennsylvania Status: Decided
In August 2020, the DOJ filed suit in the district court of Pennsylvania, challenging agreements that include Geisinger Health System’s bid to acquire 30% ownership …
Federal Trade Commission and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Thomas Jefferson University and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
District Court: Eastern District of Pennsylvania Status: Decided
The FTC and the Pennsylvania AG filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to block the nearly $600 million merger deal between Jefferson …
Federal Trade Commission v. Hackensack Meridian and Englewood Healthcare
District Court: District of New Jersey Status: Pending
Hackensack Meridian, the largest healthcare system in New Jersey, and Englewood Healthcare announced their plans to merge in October 2019. While the proposed transaction was …
Davis et al. v. HCA Healthcare and Mission Health System
District Court: North Carolina Superior Court (Buncombe County) Status: Pending
The class action lawsuit filed in North Carolina state court against HCA Healthcare and Mission Health alleges anticompetitive practices in violation of the North Carolina …
Minnesota v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC
District Court: District Court of New Jersey Status: Pending
Minnesota’s attorney general filed a suit accusing Sanofi, Eli Lilly, and Novo Nordisk, the three largest manufacturers of insulin, of price gouging. The lawsuit, filed in …
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. UPMC et al.
District Court: Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Status: Pending
In February 2019, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro stepped in to intervene in the long-standing battle over market share between University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and …
People of the State of California ex rel. Xavier Becerra v. Sutter Health
District Court: Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco Status: Decided
On March 29, 2018, California’s attorney general filed an antitrust and unfair competition lawsuit against Sutter Health alleging that Sutter engaged in “all-or-nothing” contracts with …
UnitedHealth Group anti-competitive behavior in elder care market
District Court: Status: Decided
In January 2016, the New York Attorney General announced a settlement with UnitedHealth Group to protect competition in the elder care market. The settlement follows a $100,000 …
In re: Suboxone Antitrust Litigation (State of Wisconsin, et al. v. Indivior Inc, et al.)
District Court: E.D. Pennsylvania Status: Pending
In September 2016, 35 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia brought a multi-district case against pharmaceutical manufacturer Indivior, MonoSol RX et al., alleging …
RxStrategies v. CVS Pharmacy
District Court: M.D. Florida Status: Pending
340B administrator RxStrategies sued CVS pharmacy alleging that since CVS aquired Wellpartner, the company has engaged in unlawful tying, using its status as a “must …