Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Mar. 14, 2022
Sutter Health defeats billion-dollar antitrust claim
The lawsuit revolved around claims that Sutter forced Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of California, HealthNet and United HealthCare into all-or-nothing deals, which Sutter agreed to stop using after a similar case in Southern California last year ended with a $575 million settlement agreement.
After a monthlong trial and less than 10 hours of deliberations over two days, nine jurors unanimously rendered a verdict Friday that potentially saved Sutter Health $1.2 billion in damages, finding it did not force health plans to agree to contracts preventing them from steering patients to lower cost non-Sutter hospitals.
The jury also found Sutter did not sell inpatient hospitals services at certain Sutter hospitals, where Sutter was th...
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