The U.S. Justice Department is suing North Carolina's largest healthcare system, saying it illegally imposes contract requirements on insurers that reduce competition.
Carolinas HealthCare System places restrictions in its contracts with insurers that bar them from offering tiered networks that include competing hospitals in their top tiers, the Justice Department and the state of North Carolina allege in a complaint filed Thursday. The system also forbids the insurers from offering narrow networks that include only its competitors in violation of antitrust law, according to the Justice Department.
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