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 …
Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers v. State of Ohio
District Court: Common Pleas Court of Williams County Status: Decided
Ohio’s Healthcare Price Transparency Law, passed in June 2015 (HB 52) by the Ohio Legislature, has been challenged by health care providers arguing that the …
Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) v. Mulready
District Court: District Court of Western District of Oklahoma Status: Decided
The 2019 Oklahoma law, Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act, targets PBM conflict of interest by prohibiting higher reimbursement rates for PBM-owned pharmacies and bans …
Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association v. Wolf
District Court: U.S. District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania Status: Decided
State of Ohio v. OptumRx
District Court: Ohio Court of Common Pleas (Franklin County) Status: Pending
On March 15, 2019, Ohio’s attorney general Dave Yost sued OptumRx in Ohio state court, claiming that between 2015 and 2018, the PBM failed to pass …
Texas et al. v. United States of America et al.
District Court: Northern District of Texas Status: Decided
[Consolidated with California et al. v. Texas et al. for Supreme Court review] This case arises out of the Supreme Court’s decision in NFIB v. …
Pharm. Care Mgmt. Ass’n v. Gerhart
District Court: Southern District of Iowa Status: Decided
Trade association representing pharmacy benefits managers (PBM) brought action against State of Iowa, seeking declaration that statute that regulated how PBMs established generic drug pricing …
Pharm. Care Mgmt. Ass’n v. Tufte
District Court: District of North Dakota Status: Pending
Trade association representing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) brought action against North Dakota state officials in their official capacities, alleging that Employee Retirement Income Security Act …
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 …