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Article: Antitrust verdict in Marshfield Clinic case still ominous.
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- Physician Executive
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
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On December 31, 1994, a jury in a federal court case in Wisconsin found that the physician-controlled Marshfield Clinic and its HMO, Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., had engaged in anticompetitive, monopolistic practices to restrict the health care market in northern and central Wisconsin.
Several days later, the jury awarded the plaintiffs, Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin, approximately $16 million dollars, which, under federal antitrust law, was automatically tripled to approximately $48 million. However, at a hearing on March 16, 1995, Judge John C. Shabaz granted remittitur, reducing the award to $5.6 million, which will be tripled to about ...