Another Wage-Fixing Indictment (And Preventive Measures To Take)

On March 16, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced another indictment of an individual, alleging price-fixing in the labor markets for health care services. This indictment of an individual in Las Vegas, Nevada, alleges that he held executive positions at multiple home health care agencies where he oversaw the recruitment, hiring, retention, and assignment of nurses and other health care staff and that he agreed to fix the wages of nurses by conspiring with others to suppress and eliminate competition for the services of nurses between March 2016 and May 2019. The indictment alleges that a series of meetings and communications occurred between the person indicted and certain unnamed coconspirators.