The Justice Department plans to heighten its scrutiny of competing companies’ pricing and other information sharing practices, concerned that they can enable illegal collusion.
The department’s antitrust division is withdrawing—with no plans to replace—a trio of policy statements outlining permissible conduct related to information sharing in the healthcare industry issued between 1993 and 2011, Principal Deputy Attorney General Doha Mekki said Thursday at an antitrust conference in Miami.
These safe harbor statements have been broadly interpreted by health care and other sector companies to share information.
Some exchanges can enable price and wage fixing and other forms of illegal conduct, ...
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