Overview
- The Justice Department, which filed the Sherman Act case Thursday in the Southern District of New York, asked a judge to halt the restrictions.
- Prosecutors say the hospital bars insurers from selling plans that exclude it or that offer better copays or top-tier placement at rival hospitals.
- The complaint says the city’s largest hospital system demands all-or-nothing deals that force health plans to include its entire network to gain any access.
- The filing describes an insurer that was stopped from moving outpatient colonoscopies to a lower-cost provider.
- NewYork-Presbyterian calls the suit meritless and says insurers hold the power, as the case grows from a 2024 union complaint and wider federal scrutiny of hospital contracts.