Most Popular Stories
- UnitedHealth Group's Stephen Hemsley - CEO Compensation
- Proposed cosmetic surgery tax is wrinkling a few brows
- Senate releases $848 billion health reform bill
- Study: Current EMRs don't have measurable impact on cost or quality
- AMIA 09: CHCF president calls for more 'Kaiserness' to connect information
- Study: Physicians missing kidney disease diagnoses
Featured Jobs
-
Orthopedic Surgeon Job in Washington
StaffPointe, LLC - near Spokane, WA -
Physician Assistant Job for Virginia
StaffPointe, LLC - north , VA -
Family Practice Job in Illinois
StaffPointe, LLC - central, IL -
Internal Medicine Job for Indiana
StaffPointe, LLC - north, IN -
Neurology Job in South Dakota
StaffPointe, LLC - east, SD
Events
- Security Audits: Is Your Organization Prepared and In Compliance?
Dec.3 at 12 pm CT - Harvard Business School 7th Healthcare Conference
January 30, 2010
Paid Research Reports
- Pricing and Reimbursement in Key Asia Pacific Markets
- Delivery Mechanisms for Large Molecule Drugs: Successes and failures of leading technologies and key drivers for market success
- The Cardiovascular Market Outlook to 2013: Competitive landscape, global market analysis and pipeline analysis
- Intellectual Property and Outsourcing in China: Minimizing risk whilst maximizing return on investment
- Health Care Equipment & Supplies: Global Industry Guide
- 2009 Trends to Watch: Healthcare Technology
FEATURES >> YouTube | Top acute-care hospitals | Women in Health IT | Top BlackBerry Apps | Commentary
TOPICS >> Stimulus | Health Reform | CMS News | Finance | EMRs | Mobile Healthcare | Hospital Leadership Blog
Free Newsletter
FierceHealthcare is the leading source of healthcare management news for healthcare industry executives. Join 46,000+ healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthcare via daily email. Sign up today!
Popular Topics
- Medicare
- health plans
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Insurance
- Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Medicaid
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- healthcare system
- prescription drugs
- health reform
- pharmaceutical companies
AMA tries to block UnitedHealth acquisition
Contending that the buy would unfairly lock up the Nevada market, the American Medical Association has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to block a planned UnitedHealth Group acquisition. UHG had announced last week that it would acquire Las Vegas, NV-based Sierra Health Services, a $1.7 billion company which operates managed care plans throughout Nevada. The AMA is asking the DOJ to stop $2.6 billion deal, arguing that it would represent an "alarming" consolidation of the state's HMO market. This move is part of a larger campaign by the AMA, which has been sounding the alarm about insurance industry consolidation for some time, arguing that such consolidation severely undercuts physicians' ability to negotiate with health plans.
In its letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, the AMA projected that the merger would give UHG 95 percent of the Los Vegas-area HMO market and 78 percent of the Nevada HMO market, giving it an unfair and anticompetitive advantage over doctors, the group contends. UHG, for its part, has argued that the AMA's analysis is flawed. It argues that if other types of insurance products are taken into account, there's plenty of competition in the state.
To learn more about the AMA's stand:
- read this Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal piece
- read the AMA's statement on the subject
Related Articles:
NY MDs sue Oxford, UnitedHealth. Report
NY hospitals sue UnitedHealth, claim racketeering. Report
UnitedHealth Group faces criminal inquiry. Report
UnitedHealth CEO Bill McGuire ousted over questionable stock options. Report
UnitedHealthcare slaps HCA with antitrust suit. Report
Related Stories
- AMA tackles out-of-network fines by health plans
- Study: Higher co-pays drop drug use, raise costs
- Antitrust case highlights tensions over MD-owned hospitals
- UnitedHealth's McGuire gives up $400M in assets
- DOJ OKs UnitedHealth buyout of Sierra
- AMA, SEIU ask court to stop UnitedHealth deal
- Doctors angered by proposed UnitedHealth fines
- UnitedHealth cuts asthma drug co-pay
- UnitedHealth settles Nebraska complaints
- CA accuses UnitedHealth of 'unfair' practices
Comments
Post new comment
Home
| Subscribe | Advertise | Mobile Edition | RSS |
Privacy
| Site Map | List in Marketplace | Supplier MarketplaceTHE FIERCEMARKETS NETWORKFierceFinance | FierceFinanceIT | FierceComplianceIT | FierceHealthcare | FierceHealthFinance | FierceHealthIT | Hospital Impact | FierceMobileHealthcare | FierceCIO | FierceCIO:TechWatch | FierceContentManagement | FierceMobileIT | FierceGovernmentIT | FierceBiotech | FierceBiotech Research | FiercePharma | FierceVaccines | FierceBiotechIT | FiercePharma Manufacturing | FierceIPTV | FierceOnlineVideo | FierceTelecom | FierceVoIP | FierceBroadbandWireless | FierceDeveloper | FierceMobileContent | FierceWireless | FierceWireless:Europe© 2009 FierceMarkets, Inc. All rights reserved. |
![]() |





