In court documents filed by the state’s attorney general’s office July 19, California agreed to settle the hospitals’ objections to competition conditions. One of the conditions was a price cap on Pasadena, Calif.-based Huntington’s negotiated rates with insurers, and another was a condition that would have given insurers a leg up in negotiations with Huntington and Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai, according to Pasadena Now.
In a lawsuit filed March 30 against the California Department of Justice and the Office of the Attorney General, the hospitals argued the conditions would have put Huntington at a disadvantage compared to area hospitals.
Attorneys will ask a state judge July 20 to cancel a trial slated for July 29 and to replace the old affiliation conditions with revised ones, according to the report.
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