{"id":11581,"date":"2026-02-24T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:24:10","slug":"doj-ohio-file-antitrust-suit-against-ohiohealth-over-payer-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=11581","title":{"rendered":"DOJ, Ohio File Antitrust Suit Against OhioHealth Over Payer Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/02\/doj-ohio-antitrust-lawsuit\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice and the state of Ohio filed an antitrust lawsuit against OhioHealth this week, alleging the health system used \u201call-or-nothing\u201d contracts that force insurers to include all of its hospitals and physicians. The case highlights federal and state scrutiny of hospital consolidation and restrictive contracting practices \u2014 with potential implications for payers, patients and healthcare markets across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/02\/doj-ohio-antitrust-lawsuit\/\">DOJ, Ohio File Antitrust Suit Against OhioHealth Over Payer Contracts<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice and the state of Ohio filed an antitrust lawsuit against OhioHealth this week, alleging the health system used \u201call-or-nothing\u201d contracts that force insurers to include all of its hospitals and physicians. The case highlights federal and state scrutiny of hospital consolidation and restrictive contracting practices \u2014 with potential implications for payers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}