Legal Opinion
Gonzalez-Maldonado v. MMM Health Care, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 7, 2012No. 11-1880PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
Two physicians who contract with HMOs refused to accept capitation payments in place of fee-for-service payments, so the HMOs dropped the physicians’ contracts. The physicians brought constitutional and antitrust claims against the companies, which the district court rejected on a motion to dismiss. The physicians now appeal. We describe briefly the underlying events alleged in the complaint.
Appellant Carlos P. González-Maldonado and his wife, appellant Annette Acevedo-Hernández, are licensed physicians with private medical offices in southeast Puerto Rico in Guayama and…
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