Sutter Health kept its prices high through anti-competitive means and should pay 3 million insurance buyers $411 million for overcharges, their lawyer argued Wednesday at the close of a California federal antitrust trial, calling the hospital chain's contracts with insurers restrictive, "unfair," "unjust" and "illegal."
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Sutter Health's former chief financial officer rejected claims that the hospital giant built up its market power to stifle competition and charge higher prices, testifying Thursday in a $411 million antitrust class action that its goal is merely to have the money to fund necessary and state-mandated improvements.
A lawyer representing insurance buyers in a $411 million antitrust class against Sutter Health told a California federal jury Thursday during opening remarks that the health care nonprofit has stifled competition and "gouged" millions of individuals and businesses with high prices.