Records from St. Luke’s antitrust trial to be revealed
By Audrey Dutton and Zach Kyle, The Idaho Statesman | |
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More than 500: That's how many items Winmill has now ordered to be unsealed by participants in the St. Luke's health care lawsuit last year.
More than 350: That's how many records he deemed so sensitive that they'll never see the light of day.
The records, to be disclosed within 30 days of last Thursday's order, will offer a behind-the-scenes look at physician pay, negotiations between <location value="LS/us.id" idsrc="xmltag.org">Idaho health insurers and
Winmill declined to order the disclosure of competitive information such as formulas for pinpointing the best location for a
The testimony and documents come from the closely watched lawsuit over
Winmill presided over the trial last year. He concluded that St. Luke's did break antitrust laws and must undo the deal. St. Luke's is appealing.
But during the trial, Winmill allowed everyone involved in the litigation -- plaintiffs
Several
"In large part, the court cannot find compelling reasons to justify maintaining the sealed status for most of the courtroom testimony now under seal," the judge wrote.
Attorney General
"But it appears that quite a bit more information will be made available to the public because of this decision," he said. "We intend to work with the parties to put the ruling into effect."
Winmill said about 120 items may be redacted. In a few cases, just names will be removed.
"We think they will probably show what we've known all along about charges and other things," said
"We fully support his decision," said
The
"This is all that we wanted," said Brown. "We don't expect all documents to be open to the public's view, but we wanted this type of analysis."
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