ALM Benefits Pro, “The MultiPlan MDL: What does it all mean and where it’s headed next?” By Christopher J. Tellner and Stacey Widlansky , 7-3-2025

Plaintiffs allege that all major health insurers in the U.S., including UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna, Humana and Blue Cross And Blue Shield, and many smaller ones, have joined with MultiPlan to form a “cartel” that shares their competitively sensitive reimbursement data. In August 2024, six lawsuits were consolidated into multidistrict litigation no. 3121 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, launching one of the latest cases in a long line of complex litigation surrounding the issue of how health insurers compensate providers… 

Christopher J. Tellner is a partner at Kaufman Dolowich, based in Philadelphia, Penn., and co-chair of the firm’s Health Care & Managed Care Practice Group.  Stacey Widlansky is Sr. Vice President of Chatham Insurance Services based in Connecticut. 

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