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Zelis, insurers move to dismiss US antitrust claims over information sharing

( August 11, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Zelis Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group, Elevance Health, Aetna and The Cigna Group moved to dismiss US claims accusing them of conspiring to suppress out-of-network payments to healthcare providers opposed motions for dismissal and arbitration. “In a recent decision in coordinated proceedings against MultiPlan a much larger provider of healthcare solutions, the court rejected some of the very same theories Plaintiffs now assert. That court correctly held that pleading a horizontal agreement between MultiPlan and each of its users was not enough because MultiPlan does not compete for [out-of-network] repricing. And while that court, in contrast to others before it, allowed some of the plaintiffs’ claims there to proceed, it did so based on factual allegations that are conspicuously absent here,” they argued. See attached file. ...

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