RRS Imaging Associates Ltd. v. Medical Service Ass'n

HOFFER, J.,

— Plaintiffs are doctors, or partnerships and professional corporations made up of doctors. Defendant is Blue Shield, with whom plaintiffs made a contract to provide medical services as “participating doctors.” Participating doctors áre compensated according to Blue Shield’s UCR Program, which calculates usual, customary, and reasonable fees.1

*340These calculations have as a starting point the doctors’ actual charges for the services performed. Blue Shield does not pay the doctors the amount of their actual charges; the doctors are paid according to their UCR profiles. The doctors also…