When Chester County Hospital filed a $60 million federal antitrust suit this year against Independence Blue Cross and two of its subsidiaries, its lawyers painted a very negative picture of the insurers, claiming they were using their monopoly power to cheat the hospital and gouge consumers.
Now IBC is fighting fire with fire by filing an answer to the suit that includes three counterclaims and accuses the hospital of using a “baseless” lawsuit to rescue itself from its own alleged mismanagement and crushing debt.
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