DaVita, former CEO Kent Thiry indicted in alleged non-compete scheme
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A federal grand jury has indicted dialysis provider DaVita and its former CEO on two counts of conspiring with competing employers not to solicit certain employees.
The indictment alleges that DaVita and former CEO Kent Thiry participated in two separate conspiracies to suppress competition for certain executives. The charges are the result of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into employee allocation agreements in the healthcare industry.
The first count holds that DaVita and Thiry conspired with Surgical Care Affiliates to not solicit one another's senior-level employees from as early as February 2012 until as late as July 2017. Count two alleges DaVita and Thiry conspired with another healthcare company from as early as April 2017 until as late as June 2019 to allocate employees by agreeing that the other company would not solicit DaVita's employees.