KARTELL ET AL.

v.

BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC.; AND RODKEY ET AL. V. BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC.

Citator

Cited By

• Scott D. Levine, M.D. v. Cent. Fla. Med. Affiliates, Inc., 72 F.3d 1538 (11th Cir. 1996)
  …g to accept that limitation on the reimbursement they receive, is a kind of “price fixing,” but it is a kind that the antitrust laws do not prohibit. See, e.g., Kartell v. Blue Shield, 749 F. 2d 922, 923-26 (1st Cir.1984) (Breyer, J.), cert. denied, 471 U.S. 1029, 105 S.Ct. 2040, 85 L.Ed.2d 322 (1985); Pennsylvania Dental Ass’n v. Medical Serv. Ass’n, 745 F. 2d 248, 256-57 (3d Cir.1984), cert. denied, 471 U.S. 1016, 105 S.Ct. 2021, 85 L.Ed.2d 303 (1985); Medical Arts Pharmacy v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield, 675…
• Austin v. Blue Cross AND Blue Shield OF Alabama, 903 F.2d 1385 (11th Cir. 1990)
  …on or maintenance of monopoly power. Efforts to obtain lower prices for subscribers are not anti-competitive. A similar conclusion was reached by the First Circuit in Kartell v. Blue Shield of Mass., Inc., 749 F. 2d 922 (1st Cir.1984), cert. denied, 471 U.S. 1029, 105 S.Ct. 2040, 85 L.Ed.2d 322 (1985). The Kartell Court found no right of action under the Sherman Act under circumstances similar to the instant case, holding that pricing agreements between an insurance company and participating physicians do no…
• Barry v. Blue Cross OF California, 805 F.2d 866 (9th Cir. 1986)
  …rillhart, 768 F. 2d at 200-01 (insurer’s agreements with physicians to provide services at predetermined prices do not violate antitrust laws); Kartell v. Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc., 749 F. 2d 922, 980-81 (1st Cir.1984) (same), cert. denied, 471 U.S. 1029, 105 S.Ct. 2040, 85 L.Ed.2d 322 (1985); Royal Drug II, 737 F. 2d at 1438-39 (insurer who pays reduced benefits for drugs purchased at nonparticipating pharmacies does not engage in boycott or unlawful vertical price fixing); Proctor v. State Farm Mu…