Jim Flynn is the chair of the firm's Health Care Practice Group, a position he has held since 2012. He has been with the firm since he started practicing law in 1990. His practice is focused on transactions, board governance, executive ...
One of the bigger barriers to health care providers’ ability to challenge managed care organization (MCO) behaviors is contract terms that force all disputes to arbitration. MCOs insist upon arbitration dispute resolution provisions to prevent disputes from being litigated in local courts. Usually, such arbitration is required to be with the ...
Five weeks after filing a nearly identical lawsuit in a Columbus federal court, the same United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) attorneys filed a lawsuit in a New York City federal court against The New York and Presbyterian Hospital (“NYPH”). On March 26, 2026, the DOJ sued NYPH for using its Manhattan-based market power to force ...
A massive piece of litigation pending in federal court in Chicago under the caption, In re: Multiplan Health Insurance Provider Litigation, may not be on many providers’ radars because it appears to be mostly about how providers are being reimbursed for out-of-network services. Indeed, most providers get most of their revenues from being ...
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In an irregular use of their enforcement powers, the Antitrust ...