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Article: Crying foul; Insurer takes on Kan. provider plan on antitrust.(Coventry Health Care of Kansas antitrust lawsuit against Via Christi Health System)(Brief Article)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- September 3, 2001
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A commercial health insurer in Wichita, Kan., has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the largest health system in town and the system's own HMO and PPO, alleging that the system is trying to drive it out of business.
The lawsuit is the latest permutation of the fallout that can occur when hospitals do business with or as health insurers. In other cases hospitals have sued one another over alleged mismanagement of their own plans. At least one hospital association has seen its money-losing malpractice insurer seized by the state, and some hospitals have taken to using lawyers as routine members of their contracting teams (Aug. 27, p. 4).
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