STATE OF MAINE
DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL REGULATION
BUREAU OF INSURANCE

 

In Re: Application of Associated Hospital Service of Maine d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine to convert to a Stock Insurer and Voluntarily Liquidate and Dissolve	)) )) )) )
and	)) ) )	BCBSME’S MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF OBJECTIONS TO CONSUMER INTERVENORS’ DISCOVERY REQUESTS
In Re: Application of Anthem Health Plan of Maine, Inc. to Acquire the Assets of Associated Hospital Service of Maine d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine and Related Transactions Docket No. INS-99-14 (CONSOLIDATED)	)) )) )) )) ))

Applicant Anthem Insurance Companies has filed a memorandum in support of its objections to Consumer Intervenors’ First Discovery Request. Although the rules governing discovery do not require the filing of such a memorandum, BCBSME agrees that Anthem’s memorandum appropriately underscores some of the unusual burden that Intervenors’ request has imposed on the Applicants.

BCBSME will not repeat the points made in Anthem’s memorandum. But it bears emphasizing that in this case the Superintendent is not situated as a passive adjudicator finding facts only from the evidence the that Applicants and private intervenor/opponents have discovered and produced. In this case, the Superintendent has used his staff and hired outside consultants to generate information that the Bureau regards as relevant to the proceedings. In addition, the Attorney General, working with his consultants, has served three separate sets of discovery requests on the Applicants.

With both the Superintendent’s staff and the Attorney General having assiduously pursued the development of relevant information through the discovery process, something more than a tenuous relation to the issues set forth in the Superintendent’s notice should be present before the Applicants are sent on a far ranging detour in search of documentary materials and other extraneous data.

Date: February 14, 2000

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Robert S. Frank

HARVEY & FRANK

Two City Center

Suite 402

Portland, Maine 04112-0126

(207) 775-1300

 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned hereby certifies that on February 14, 2000 a copy of

BCBSME’S MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF OBJECTIONS TO CONSUMER INTERVENORS’ DISCOVERY REQUESTS

was served by United States mail, first class postage prepaid, or, where indicated, by hand delivery, on each of the persons listed below.

James B. Zimpritch

Pierce Atwood

One Monument Square

Portland, Maine 04101

e-mail: jzimpritch@pierceatwood.com

 

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, 4^th 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)

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