Kruger Clinic Orthopaedics, L.L.C. v. Regence BlueShield

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Owens, J.

Insurance carrier Regence BlueShield (Regence) provides its insureds with health care services on a prepaid basis through subscriber agreements. Regence contracts with health care providers who agree to serve Regence’s insureds on a fee-for-service basis. At issue in these consolidated cases is the enforceability of the arbitration clauses in the provider agreements that Regence entered into with Kruger Clinic Orthopaedics (Kruger) and with Tacoma Orthopaedic Surgeons and others (collectively, the Tacoma Orthopaedic providers).

*295¶2 We conclude that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA),…