Connecticut Podiatric Medical Ass'n v. Health Net of Connecticut, Inc.

Opinion

McLACHLAN, J.

The plaintiff podiatrists, Jeffrey F. Yale, Anthony R. lorio, and R. Daniel Davis (individual podiatrists), and the named plaintiff, the Connecticut Podiatric Medical Association (association), appeal1 from the grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant, Health Net of Connecticut, Inc. The plaintiffs argue that the trial court improperly concluded that, as a matter of law, the defendant’s practice of reimbursing the individual podiatrists at a lower rate than medical doctors for the same procedures does not constitute “unfair discrimination” in violation of the…