“Vigilant antitrust enforcement protects competition and gives American consumers, lower prices, higher quality goods, and more innovation” (Department of Justice, 2011)
Under the direction of Attorney General of the state of Montana and the United States, a civil anti-trust action was taken to direct an anticompetitive agreement between the Blue Cross and Blue shield of Montana and a group of companies representing the hospitals including; Bozeman Deaconess, Health Services, Inc, Northern Montana, Health Care, Inc, Billings Clinic, Community Medical Center, Inc., and to provide measures for overcoming the harms that this agreement ...