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March 10, 2021 An individual filed a class-action complaint on Tuesday against his former employer, Surgical Care Affiliates LLC (SCA), and affiliated entities, alleging Sherman Act and Clayton Act violations through lowering employee wages in an anticompetitive conspiracy among other companies in the market. The Northern District of Illinois lawsuit came on the heels of a Jan. 5 Department of Justice criminal indictment against SCA, claiming the company and others were colluding to control the labor market.
SCA owns and operates about 230 outpatient care facilities across the country, serving around 1 million patients every year, with approximately 10,000 employees, according to the complaint. Plaintiff Allen Spradling was an employee of SCA from Sept. 22, 2008, until April 26, 2013, as a manager of the program management office and then as director of information technology.
UnitedHealth Group, Tenet hit with anti-poaching suit
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A former director at an outpatient facility owned by UnitedHealth Group sued the healthcare giant in Chicago federal court on Tuesday, alleging the company engaged in an anti-poaching scheme with its competitors and agreed not to hire each other s senior employees.
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of Illinois, echoes the claims from an ongoing case brought by the government in January. In addition to naming UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Surgical Care Affiliates, the proposed class-action also targets Surgical Partners International, a Tenet Healthcare Corp. affiliate, and Andrew Hayek, the executive vice president and senior advisor to the CEO of Optum. The suit was brought by Allen Spradling, a former director of information technology at Surgical Care Affiliates.