Three years ago, nationally renowned litigators brought a class action lawsuit against Mission Hospital and its parent company HCA Healthcare. It claims that HCA was using the regional monopoly Mission built up as a nonprofit to force insurers into anticompetitive contracts leading to higher healthcare costs and worse services for residents of western North Carolina.
Some in the community hoped the court challenge would rein in the changes that came with HCA’s acquisition of Mission Hospital in 2019.
But now, that lawsuit has hit a roadblock…