Dr. James R. Brillhart v. Mutual Medical Insurance, Inc., D/B/A Blue Shield of Indiana, Defendant

How courts have described this case

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• observing that agreements “between … the buyer … and … the sellers” are “really vertical, rather than horizontal”
• insurer’s agreements with physicians to provide services at predetermined prices do not violate antitrust laws
• “The plaintiff cannot make out a cause of action for horizontal price- fixing since the alleged agreement between Blue Shield and participating doctors does not run between competitors in the medical services industry or between competitors in the insurance industry.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).