HEALTH CARE EQUALIZATION v. IOWA MEDICAL SOC.

Civ. No. 79-381-A.

501 F.Supp. 970 (1980)

HEALTH CARE EQUALIZATION COMMITTEE OF the IOWA CHIROPRACTIC SOCIETY, Plaintiff, v. IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Iowa, C. D.

November 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lex Hawkins, George F. Davison, Jr., Glenn L. Norris, Donald J. Polden, Hawkins & Norris, Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiff.

H. Richard Smith, Des Moines, Iowa, Dennis C. Waldon, Roan & Grossman, and Jay H. Hedgepeth, Chicago, Ill., for defendant American Hosp. Assn.

A. Roger Witke, John C. Eddy, Whitfield, Musgrave, Selvy, Kelly & Eddy, Des Moines, Iowa, for Blue Cross of Iowa.

Kenneth W. Biermacher, Des Moines, Iowa, James L. Simon, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

Robert B. Throckmorton, Arthur F. Owens, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendants Iowa Medical Society, Donald C. Young, M. D., and Nelson H. Chesney, M. D.

L. Call Dickinson, Jr., Craig F. Graziano, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendant Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Iowa.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Jeanine Freeman, Gary H. Swanson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for defendant Norman L. Pawlewski.

Dennis D. Jerde, Robert F. Holz, Jr., Des Moines, Iowa, and Newton N. Minow, Jack R. Bierig, Sidley & Austin, and Bernard D. Hirsh, B. J. Anderson, Chicago, Ill., for American Medical Association, Clarence R. Denser, Jr., H. Doyl Taylor, Am. Hospital Assn., Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, and American College of Radiology.

B. A. Webster, Brent B. Green, Arthur E. Gamble, Richard W. Berglund, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendant Iowa Hospital Association.

John D. McClintock, Hansen, McClintock & Riley, Des Moines, Iowa and James A. Cherney, John R. McCambridge, Paul M. VanArsdell, Jr., Hedlund, Hunter & Lynch, Chicago, Ill., for American College of Radiology.


RULING AND ORDER

STUART, Chief Judge.

The Health Care Equalization Committee ("HCEC"), standing as a committee of the Iowa Chiropractic Society, Inc. and purporting to be assignee of the claims of over 150 Iowa chiropractors, initiated this action against fourteen defendants, including six professional and trade associations, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the Iowa Commissioner of Health, and other individually named physicians. HCEC alleges that these defendants...

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