Lawsuit Alleges Becton Dickinson Has Monopoly on Safety Syringe Market
EAST ST. LOUIS, IL—A group of healthcare providers has filed a lawsuit against medical device manufacturer Becton Dickinson (BD), accusing the company of monopolizing the U.S. safety syringe market and abusing its “extraordinary market power to require the use of oppressive, anti-competitive contracts that effectively force above-competitive prices on the market.”
According to a report in Medical Device and Diagnostic Device Industry, the group filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois against BD, its distributors and group purchasing organizations (GPOs). The lawsuit was filed by Marion Diagnostic, a healthcare facility in Marion, IL, and Marion HealthCare, a multispecialty surgery center owned and operated by physicians in Marion.