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COAST PLAZA DOCTORS HOSPITAL v. BLUE CROSS OF CALIFORNIA

No. B205892.

173 Cal.App.4th 1179 (2009)

___ Cal.Rptr.3d ___

COAST PLAZA DOCTORS HOSPITAL, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. BLUE CROSS OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

May 11, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Daron L. Tooch, Glenn E. Solomon, Suzanne S. Chou and John A. Mills for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Aileen F. Bruno for Defendant and Respondent Blue Cross of California.

Theodora Oringher Miller & Richman, Kenneth E. Johnson; Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg and Thomas R. Freeman for Defendants and Respondents Prospect Medical Group, Inc., and Nuestra Familia Medical Group.

OPINION

TUCKER, J.* —

In California, health care providers are statutorily required to provide emergency care to a patient without regard to the patient's ability to pay for such care. (Health & Saf. Code, § 1317.)1 If a patient who receives emergency care is an enrollee of a health care service plan, section 1371.4, a provision of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan...

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