After warring over contract terms for months, the battle between UnitedHealthcare of Colorado and Denver hospital system HealthOne has reached a new level of acrimony. UnitedHealthcare has filed a federal lawsuit against the hospital system, alleging antitrust violations, attempted monopolization and interference with contracts, according to The Denver Business Journal. United's complaint is that HealthOne, a joint venture between non-profit HealthOne Alliance and HCA Inc., has 70 percent of the women's imaging market in the metro area, and prices its services at more than twice the list prices of non-HCA facilities in metro Denver. United also says that HealthOne has agreed to waive United deductibles and co-payments, a violation of Colorado law, the Business Journal reports.
For more background on the dispute:
- read this article [1]in The Denver Business Journal
Links:
[1] http://washington.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2006/09/18/daily14.html