A new Department of Justice lawsuit has put at risk UnitedHealth Group effort to buy Amedisys one of the country’s largest providers of home health and hospice care for older people. UnitedHealth itself is already one of the largest providers of home health and hospice care in the U.S. In a suit seeking to block the deal, filed Tuesday in a federal district court in Maryland, the DOJ’s antitrust division argued that the combination would hurt consumers and the nurses who work for the companies. In addition to the DOJ’s antitrust division, the suit was also brought by state attorneys general from Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York.
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