DaVita

US prosecutors on Tuesday in Colorado federal court began calling witnesses in a novel criminal antitrust prosecution against dialysis provider DaVita, reported Reuters, DaVita was charged last year along with its former chief executive in a conspiracy to suppress competition for senior-level employees. Federal prosecutors contend former DaVita chief executive Kent Thiry unlawfully schemed to block top […]

On Friday, January 28, a federal judge declined to dismiss a criminal antitrust indictment alleging dialysis provider DaVita and its former CEO Kent Thiry conspired with competitors not to hire each other’s senior employees, reported Reuters. Senior US District Judge R. Brooke Jackson in Denver spurned arguments from the defendants that the agreements DaVita, one of […]

Federal regulators approved UnitedHealth’s $4.3 billion purchase of DaVita’s physician group with the condition that theUnitedHealth sell one of its newly purchased health-care provider organizations in Nevada. The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday UnitedHealth has agreed to divest a primary-care practice in the Las Vegas region known as HealthCare Partners Nevada to Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare. […]

In an unprecedented move, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser filed a complaint in El Paso County District Court Wednesday morning that aims to blunt the anticompetitive effects of a proposed merger of physician groups owned by Denver-based DaVita Inc. and insurance giant UnitedHealth Group. Full Content: Denver Post Want more news? Subscribe to CPI’s free daily newsletter for […]