Saint Peter’s University Hospital, Inc. v. Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. (079097) (Middlesex County and Statewide)

Judge FISHER

(temporarily assigned) delivered the opinion of the Court.

Defendant Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc., New Jersey’s largest health insurer, maintains a two-tiered provider-hospital system known as OMNIA approved by the Department of Banking and Insurance. Capital Health Sys., Inc. v. Dep’t of Banking & Ins., 445 N.J.Super. 522, 532, 139 A.3d 134 (App. Div. 2016). Plaintiff Saint Peter’s University Hospital, Inc., and plaintiff Capital Health System, Inc. and others, commenced separate lawsuits in different vicinages, claiming Horizon treated them unfairly and in a manner that…