Hospital Giant Sutter Health Faces Legal Reckoning Over Medical Pricing
If the case is successful, he predicted, healthcare prices could drop significantly in Northern California. Those higher prices trickle down to consumers in the form of higher premiums. Altogether, the plaintiffs allege, such tactics are anti-competitive and have allowed Sutter to drive up the cost of care in Northern California. “All the other hospitals want to emulate [Sutter] to get those …