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A lawsuit between a large hospital system and a dominant vendor that works for health insurance companies is getting a lot more heated — with one party calling the other an “economic parasite.”

The suit, between nonprofit hospital giant AdventHealth and MultiPlan, is now even attracting rare interest from the nation’s biggest hospital lobbyists.

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The new, highly detailed legal filings also come right as MultiPlan and more than a dozen of the largest tax-exempt, nonprofit hospital systems are wooing investors at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. AdventHealth did not attend this year’s conference, but did so last year.

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