BUFFALO, N.Y. — With all the discussions over soaring health care costs and insurance premiums a major federal court case is now focused on how some health insurance companies negotiate claims payments for out of network patients with health care providers.

2 On Your Side took a closer look at this case — which as Buffalo Business First reports — now includes Erie County Medical Center.

Erie County Medical Center is now just one of hundreds of health care providers across the country involved as plaintiffs in this massive federal court case which involves a Virginia based software and data analytics firm called Claritev. which was formerly known as MultiPlan.

In the lawsuit the firm is accused of setting up an allegedly illegal price fixing system on behalf of major health insurance fi

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