Case Details

Year Initiated/Committed

1997

Year Resolved

1997

Settlement Amount

n/a

Court

n/a

Docket Number

n/a

Lead State

NY

Participating States

NY

Defendant(s)

North shore Health System; Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Case Description

State and two hospitals agreed that the merged hospitals would, for a period of five years, pass on $100 million of cost savings to consumers, in the form of new or incremental services, including early detection and screening, increasing services to underserved populations, improvements of health care delivery. the hospitals also agreed to freeze hospital list prices for both inpatient and outpatient services for two years. Annual reports are to be submitted to the attorney general.