Case Details

Year Initiated/Committed

2003

Year Resolved

2003

Settlement Amount

unknown

Court

Kennebec Superior Court, Maine

Docket Number

CV-03-135

Lead State

ME

Participating States

ME

Defendant(s)

Maine Health Alliance; Diggens, William

Case Description

Complaint, parallel to FTC action against same Defendants, charges that PHO engaged in price-fixing and concerted refusals to deal in contracting with managed care payors. Consent Decree requires Defendants to refrain from group contracting unless advance notice to state and FTC that PHO intends to contract as a qualified risk-sharing joint arrangement or qualified clinically-integrated joint arrangement. Defendants also paid attorney fees. Hospital members entered into separate settlement agreements with similar injunctive terms. See also In the Matter of Maine Health Alliance and William Diggens, FTC Docket No. 021-0017