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STATE OF MAINE DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL REGULATION BUREAU OF INSURANCE
After a request from the Superintendent, Anthem compiled and has submitted a Fourth Supplement to its response to the Second Discovery Request of the Superintendent ("Response"). Applicant Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc., on behalf of its subsidiary to be formed, Anthem Health Plans of Maine, Inc., d/b/a Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (collectively "Anthem"), has identified documents in that Response that warrant confidential treatment and has submitted those materials to the Superintendent labeled as such. Pursuant to the October 19, 1999 Protective Order, Anthem submits the following memorandum in support of such treatment. Anthem requests confidential treatment for only a three-page document. The information for which Anthem seeks protection is sensitive because its disclosure would (1) benefit Anthem’s competitors, and (2) reveal Anthem’s strategic business plans and practices. As such, the documents designated by Anthem should be protected. Specifically, after reviewing the documents responsive to the Request, Anthem hereby requests that the following documents should be designated confidential and disclosed only in the manner set forth below:
Anthem has, on prior occasions, submitted memoranda in support of confidential treatment that set forth the law generally applicable to confidential treatment of information under the Maine Civil Rules of Procedure and developed in Maine’s caselaw. (See, e .g., Memoranda in Support of Confidential Treatment of (1) Anthem’s Response to Superintendent’s Second Discovery Request, and (2) Supplement to the Form A.) To avoid repetition, Anthem incorporates those memoranda by reference. The documents for which Anthem seeks confidential treatment reveal Anthem’s internal decision-making and analyses regarding the payment of dividends from subsidiaries. As such, the information reveals Anthem’s business plans and practices, which would be valuable to competitors, and injurious to Anthem if publicly disclosed. For these reasons, Anthem respectively requests that the Superintendent designate the above-referenced materials as confidential, subject to disclosure only under the terms outlined above and exempt from disclosure under the FOAA. DATED: January 27, 2000
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE The undersigned hereby certifies that on January 27, 2000, a copy of Anthem’s Memorandum in Support of Confidential Treatment was served by electronic mail on each of the persons listed below. Robert S. Frank, Esq. Harvey & Frank Two City Center P.O. Box 126 Portland, Maine 04112 e-mail: frank@harveyfrank.com (Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maine)
Judith Chamberlain, Esq. State of Maine Department of the Attorney General 6 State House Station Augusta, Maine 04333-0006 e-mail: judy.chamberlain@state.me.us (Bureau of Insurance)
William H. Laubenstein, Esq. State of Maine Department of the Attorney General 6 State House Station Augusta, Maine 04333-0006 e-mail: bill.laubenstein@state.me.us (Office of the Attorney General)
Gregory A. Brodek, Esq. Duane, Morris & Heckscher, LLP 15 Columbia Street, 4th Floor Bangor, Maine 04401-6355 e-mail: gabrodek@duanemorris.com (Maine Health Alliance)
Joseph P. Ditre, Esq. Consumer Health Law Program One Weston Court, Level One P.O. Box 2490 Augusta, Maine 04338-2490 e-mail: jditre@mainecahc.org (Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation/Coalition)
Michele M. Garvin, Esq. Ropes & Gray One International Place Boston, Massachusetts 02110-2624 e-mail: Mgarvin@Ropesgray.com (Central Maine Healthcare Corporation; Central Maine Partners Health Plan)
Robert I. Goldman Maine Council of Senior Citizens 27 Bowery Beach Road Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107 e-mail: Rgoldma1@maine.rr.com (Maine Council of Senior Citizens)
Bonnie Post Executive Director of the Maine Ambulatory Care Coalition P.O. Box 390 Manchester, Maine 04351 e-mail: bdpmacc@mint.net (Sacopee Valley Health Center, Regional Medical Center at Lubec, Eastport Health Care, Inc., and the Maine Ambulatory Care Coalition)
John Dieffenbacher-Krall Executive Director Maine People’s Alliance 192 State Street Portland, Maine 04101 e-mail: MPA@gwi.net (Maine People’s Alliance)
Gordon H. Smith, Esq. Maine Medical Association 30 Association Drive P.O. Box 190 Manchester, Maine 04351 e-mail: gsmith@ctel.net (Thomas D. Hayward, M.D., Maroulla S. Gleaton, M.D., And the Maine Medical Association)
Donald E. Quigley, Esq. General Counsel 465 Congress Street, Suite 600 Portland, Maine 04101-3537 e-mail: quigld@mail.mmc.org (Maine Medical Center)
Sandra L. Parker, Esq. Attorney for MHA, Inc. 150 Capitol Street Augusta, Maine 04330 e-mail: sparker@themha.org (MHA, Inc.)
Kellie P. Miller, M.S. Executive Director Maine Osteopathic Association 693 Western Avenue Manchester, Maine 04351 e-mail: meosteo@mint.net (Maine Osteopathic Association)
Edward Miller Executive Director American Lung Association of Maine 122 State Street Augusta, Maine 04330 e-mail: emiller@mainelung.org (American Lung Association of Maine)
DATED: January 27, 2000
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