Heated lawsuit between AdventHealth, MultiPlan attracts hospital lobbyists

A lawsuit between a large hospital system and a dominant vendor that works for health insurance companies is getting a lot more heated — with one party calling the other an “economic parasite.”

The suit, between nonprofit hospital giant AdventHealth and MultiPlan, is now even attracting rare interest from the nation’s biggest hospital lobbyists.

The new, highly detailed legal filings also come right as MultiPlan and more than a dozen of the largest tax-exempt, nonprofit hospital systems are wooing investors at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. AdventHealth did not attend this year’s conference, but did so last year.

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