The Trump Justice Department on Thursday paved the way for yet another corporate merger, this time settling a Biden-era legal challenge that aimed to block UnitedHealth Group from adding the home health and hospice care provider Amedisys to its eye-popping list of subsidiaries .

The DOJ’s Antitrust Division, which is under siege by lobbyists connected to the White House, said the settlement would require UnitedHealth and Amedisys to “divest 164 home health and hospice locations across 19 states.” The deal, which must be approved by a judge, would also require Amedisys to “pay a $1.1 million civil penalty to the United States for falsely certifying that it had provided ‘true, correct, and complete’ responses under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.”

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