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In October 2016, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an eleven-page joint guidance document entitled “Antitrust.
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 b
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The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) has once again indicted health care individuals and a health care company for violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. On March 30, 2021, the DOJ indicted a Regional Manager (
United States v. Hee et al., Case No. 2:21-cr-00098-RFB-BNW (D. Nev.)), who was responsible for managing the office’s hiring of nurses and developing new customers that needed nurse staffing services in Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, as well as competing companies.
Pharma companies, as well as health care companies, should be aware of this indictment because the DOJ continues to pursue Wage Fixing and No-Poaching Agreement cases in the health care area.
Allina, Optum plan to build surgery center in Brooklyn Park Joint venture that was formed in 2019 will open or acquire about a dozen such centers. February 25, 2021 12:57pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A joint venture between Allina Health System and a division of Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group is building a surgery center in Brooklyn Park and has plans to start developing two other facilities this year.
The Minneapolis-based health system and Optum launched the joint venture in late 2019 with plans to open or acquire roughly one dozen surgery centers in five years.
Those plans are on track, Allina officials said, with the joint venture having obtained in recent months majority ownership in three surgery centers in the Twin Cities. The joint venture also operates Allina surgery centers in Edina and Plymouth, so the new Brooklyn Park location would be the sixth operated through the partnership.