Comanche County Hospital v. Blue Cross of Kansas, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fromme, J.:

This is the third chapter in continuing litigation arising from conflicting ideas on how to contain spiraling hospital service costs in Kansas. The first chapter was written in Blue Cross & Blue Shield v. Bell, 227 Kan. 426, 607 P.2d 498 (1980), where it was held that Fletcher Bell, Commissioner of Insurance of Kansas, had the statutory duty and authority under K.S.A. 40-1806 and 40-1906 to review rate filings of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and to consider, among other things, the trend projections and reasonableness of projected loss…