Headline : Klobuchar Asks Regulators to Investigate MultiPlan Over Health Care Pricing

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Chris Hamby has been investigating the lucrative business of out-of-network medical claims.

Recent revelations about a data analytics firm’s role in determining medical payments have heightened concerns about possible price fixing in health care and led to a call for a federal investigation.

In a letter this week, Senator Amy Klobuchar asked federal regulators to examine whether algorithms used by the firm, MultiPlan, have helped major health insurers conspire to cut payments to doctors and leave patients with large bills. She cited a New York Times investigation last month into MultiPlan’s dominance of the lucrative business of pricing out-of-network medical claims.

“Algorithms should be used to make decisions more accurate, appropriate and efficient, not to allow competitors to collude to make health care more costly for patients,” Ms. Klobuchar wrote to the heads of the Justice Department’s antitrust division and the Federal Trade Commission.

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