HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital operator based in Nashville, Tenn., is facing another antitrust lawsuit, Becker’s reports.
The city of Brevard, N.C., filed a lawsuit against HCA on June 3. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, alleges that the hospital operator engaged in an “anticompetitive scheme involving the illegal maintenance and enhancement of monopoly power” in the acute care hospital and outpatient care markets in seven counties in North Carolina.
The allegations focus on HCA’s 2019 acquisition of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health. The lawsuit says HCA now holds monopoly power in seven North Carolina counties and has abused that power to inflate prices. Read more.
