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Arizona v. Maricopa County Medical Society, 457 U.S. 332 (1982), was a U.S. Supreme Court case involving antitrust law.A society of doctors in Maricopa County, Arizona, established maximum fees that their members could claim for seeing patients who were covered by certain health insurance plans.
The court recognized a "patient care defense", but imposed a difficult burden. The defendants had to show their concern could not have been adequately satisfied in a manner less restrictive of competition. So Wilk and later cases greatly limit the use of "quality of care" defense in boycott cases.
Association of American Medical Colleges was an antitrust class-action lawsuit that alleged collusion to prevent American trainee doctors from negotiating for better working conditions. The working conditions of medical residents often involved 80- to 100-hour workweeks. [ 1 ]
The Justice Department is suing to block UnitedHealth Group's $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys, citing concerns the combination would hinder access to home health and hospice services in the U.S.
Justice Department antitrust division head Jonathan Kanter has touted the labor antitrust cases despite the court setbacks, noting that judges have allowed such claims to proceed to trial ...
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W Adams and JW Brock, Antitrust Economics on Trial: Dialogue in New Learning (Princeton 1991) ISBN 0-691-00391-2. P Areeda and L Kaplow, Antitrust Analysis: Problems, Texts, Cases (1997) O Black, Conceptual Foundations of Antitrust (2005) RH Bork, The Antitrust Paradox (Free Press 1993) ISBN 0-02-904456-1. Choi, Jay Pil (ed.) (2007).
UnitedHealth's unit, Optum Health, offers a range of healthcare solutions, from pharmacy benefit US launches antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth, WSJ reports Skip to main content