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Case: 18-90020 Date Filed: 07/09/2018 Page: 1 of 100 Case: 18-90020 Date Filed: 07/09/2018 Page: 1 of 100 No. 18-90020 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________ IN RE: BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ANTITRUST LITIGATION (MDL 2406) ________________ BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION; ANTHEM INC., F/K/A WELLPOINT, INC.; BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF ALABAMA; HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORPORATION; CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS’ SERVICE, D/B/A BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA; PREMERA BLUE CROSS, D/B/A PREMERA BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF ALASKA; et al., Petitioners, v. JOSEPH D. ACKERSON, (PHD); SAKET K. AMBASHT, M.D.; CHARLES BARNWELL, D.C.; BREAKTHROUGH PHYSICAL THERAPY, INC.; BULLOCK COUNTY HOSPITAL; et al. Respondents. ________________ On Petition from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, No. 2:13-CV-20000-RDP ________________ MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE REPLY IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR PERMISSION TO APPEAL UNDER 28 U.S.C. §1292(b) ________________ Paul D. Clement Erin E. Murphy C. Harker Rhodes IV KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 655 Fifteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 (202) 879-5000 [email protected] Counsel for Petitioner Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (Additional Petitioners and Counsel Listed on Inside Cover) July 9, 2018 Case: 18-90020 Date Filed: 07/09/2018 Page: 2 of 100 Craig A. Hoover David J. Zott, P.C. E. Desmond Hogan Daniel E. Laytin, P.C. Catherine E. Stetson Sarah J. Donnell Justin W. Bernick Christa C. Cottrell, P.C. HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP Zachary Holmstead Columbia Square KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 555 13th Street, N.W. 300 North LaSalle Washington, DC 20004 Chicago, IL 60654 Tel: (202) 637-5600 Tel: (312) 862-2000 Fax: (202) 637-5910 Fax: (312) 862-2200 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Emily M. Yinger N. Thomas Connally, III Co-Coordinating Counsel for the HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP Petitioners Park Place II 7930 Jones Branch Drive, 9th Floor Kimberly R. West (Liaison Counsel) McLean, VA 22102 Mark M. Hogewood Tel: (703) 610-6100 WALLACE, JORDAN, RATLIFF & Fax: (703) 610-6200 BRANDT, LLC [email protected] First Commercial Bank Building [email protected] 800 Shades Creek Parkway, Suite 400 Birmingham, AL 35209 Co-Coordinating Counsel for the Tel: (205) 870-0555 Petitioners Fax: (205) 871-7534 [email protected] Cavender C. Kimble [email protected] Ed R. Haden BALCH & BINGHAM LLP Petitioners’ Liaison Counsel 1901 6th Avenue North, Suite 1500 Birmingham, AL 35203-4642 With Kirkland & Ellis LLP, counsel for Tel: (205) 226-3437 Petitioner Blue Cross Blue Shield Fax: (205) 488-5860 Association [email protected] Case: 18-90020 Date Filed: 07/09/2018 Page: 3 of 100 John Martin James L. Priester Lucile H. Cohen Carl S. Burkhalter NELSON MULLINS RILEY & John Thomas A. Malatesta, III SCARBOROUGH LLP MAYNARD COOPER & GALE PC 1320 Main Street, 17th Floor 1901 6th Avenue North, Suite 2400 Columbia, SC 29201 Regions Harbert Plaza Tel: (803) 255-9421 Birmingham, AL 35203 Fax: (803) 256-7500 Tel: (205) 254-1000 [email protected] Fax: (205) 254-1999 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] With Hogan Lovells, counsel for [email protected] Petitioners Anthem, Inc., f/k/a WellPoint, Inc., and all of its named Pamela B. Slate subsidiaries in this consolidated action; HILL HILL CARTER FRANCO COLE Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North & BLACK, P.C. Carolina, Inc.; Blue Cross and Blue 425 South Perry Street Shield of Florida, Inc.; Louisiana Montgomery, AL 36104 Health Service & Indemnity Company Tel: (334) 834-7600 (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Fax: (334) 386-4381 Louisiana); Blue Cross and Blue Shield [email protected] of Massachusetts, Inc.; BCBSM, Inc. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Counsel for Petitioner Minnesota); Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama of South Carolina; Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. (Horizon Blue Cross and Helen E. Witt, P.C. Blue Shield of New Jersey); Blue Cross Jeffrey J. Zeiger, P.C. & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Blue Erica B. Zolner Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont; Casey R. Fronk Cambia Health Solutions, Inc.; Regence KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Blue Shield of Idaho; Regence Blue 300 North LaSalle Cross Blue Shield of Utah; Regence Chicago, IL 60654 Blue Shield (of Washington); Regence Tel: (312) 862-2000 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon Fax: (312) 862-2200 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Case: 18-90020 Date Filed: 07/09/2018 Page: 4 of 100 Gwendolyn Payton Kimberly R. West (Liaison Counsel) KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & Mark M. Hogewood STOCKTON LLP WALLACE, JORDAN, RATLIFF & 1420 Fifth Avenue, Suite 37 BRANDT, LLC Seattle, WA 98101 First Commercial Bank Building Tel: (206) 626-7714 800 Shades Creek Parkway, Suite 400 Fax: (206) 299-0414 Birmingham, AL 35209 [email protected] Tel: (205) 870-0555 Fax: (205) 871-7534 Adam Charnes [email protected] KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & [email protected] STOCKTON LLP 2001 Ross Avenue, Suite 4400 Counsel for Petitioners Health Care Dallas, TX 75201 Service Corporation, an Illinois Mutual Tel: 214 922 7106 Legal Reserve Company, including its Fax: 214 481 0517 divisions Blue Cross and Blue Shield of [email protected] Illinois, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Counsel for Petitioners Premera Blue New Mexico, Blue Cross and Blue Cross d/b/a Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, and Blue Cross Shield of Alaska; Premera Blue Cross of and Blue Shield of Montana; Caring for Washington Montanans, Inc., f/k/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana, Inc.; Highmark Inc., f/k/a Highmark Health Services; Brian K. Norman Highmark West Virginia Inc.; Highmark SHAMOUN & NORMAN, LLP Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware Inc.; 1800 Valley View Lane, Suite 200 California Physicians’ Service d/b/a Farmers Branch, TX 75234 Blue Shield of California Tel: (214) 987-1745 Fax: (214) 521-9033 [email protected] Case: 18-90020 Date Filed: 07/09/2018 Page: 5 of 100 H. James Koch Jonathan M. Redgrave ARMBRECHT JACKSON LLP Victoria A. Redgrave RSA Tower, 27th Floor REDGRAVE, LLP 11 North Water Street 14555 Avion Parkway, Suite 275 Mobile, AL 36602 Chantilly, VA 20151 Tel: (251) 405-1300 Tel: (703) 592-1155 Fax: (251) 432-6843 Fax: (612) 332-8915 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Counsel for Petitioners Carefirst, Inc.; Carefirst of Maryland, Inc.; Group Additional Counsel for HCSC and Hospitalization and Medical Services, Highmark Petitioners Inc.; CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc. Charles L. Sweeris Law Department Rafael Escalera Rodríguez BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA Sylmarie Arizmendi 50 Beale Street Gustavo A. Pabón Rico San Francisco, CA 94105 REICHARD & ESCALERA, LLC Tel: (415) 229-5107 255 Ponce de León Avenue Fax: (415) 229-5343 MCS Plaza, 10th Floor [email protected] San Juan, PR 00917-1913 Tel.: (787) 777-8888 Counsel for Petitioner California Fax: (787) 765-4225 Physicians’ Service d/b/a Blue Shield of [email protected] California [email protected] [email protected] Todd Stenerson Counsel for Petitioner Triple-S Salud, SHEARMAN & STERLING LLP Inc. 401 9th Street, N.W., Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004-2128 Tel: (202) 508-8000 Fax: (202) 508-8100 [email protected] Case: 18-90020 Date Filed: 07/09/2018 Page: 6 of 100 R. David Kaufman Sarah L. Cylkowski M. Patrick McDowell Thomas J. Rheaume, Jr. BRUNINI, GRANTHAM, GROWER BODMAN PLC & HEWES, PLLC 1901 Saint Antoine Street 190 East Capitol Street 6th Floor at Ford Field The Pinnacle Building, Suite 100 Detroit, MI 48226 Jackson, MS 39201 Tel: (313) 259-7777 Tel: (601) 948-3101 Fax: (734) 930-2494 Fax: (601) 960-6902 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Andy P. Campbell John Martin Stephen D. Wadsworth Lucile H. Cohen A. Todd Campbell NELSON MULLINS RILEY & Yawanna N. McDonald SCARBOROUGH LLP CAMPBELL GUIN, LLC 1320 Main Street, 17th Floor 505 20th Street North, Suite 1600 Columbia, SC 29201 Birmingham, AL 35203 Tel: (803) 255-9421 Tel: (205) 224-0750 Fax: (803) 256-7500 Fax: (205) 224-8622 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cheri D. Green [email protected] BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF MISSISSIPPI, A MUTUAL Counsel for Petitioner Blue Cross and INSURANCE COMPANY Blue Shield of Michigan P.O. Box 1043 Jackson, MS 39215 John Briggs Tel: (601) 932-3704 Rachel Adcox [email protected] AXINN, VELTROP & HARKRIDER, LLP Counsel for Petitioner Blue Cross & 950 F Street, N.W. Blue Shield of Mississippi, A Mutual Washington, DC 20004 Insurance Company Tel: (202) 912-4700 Fax: (202) 912-4701 [email protected] [email protected] Case: 18-90020 Date Filed: 07/09/2018 Page: 7 of 100 Michael A. Naranjo Stephen A. Rowe FOLEY & LARDNER LLP Aaron G. McLeod 555 California Street, Suite 1700 ADAMS AND REESE LLP San Francisco, CA 94104-1520 Regions Harbert Plaza Tel: (415) 984-9847 1901 6th Avenue North, Suite 3000 Fax: (415) 434-4507 Birmingham, AL 35203 [email protected] Tel: (205) 250-5000 Fax: (205) 250-5034 Alan D. Rutenberg [email protected] Benjamin R. Dryden [email protected] FOLEY & LARDNER LLP 3000 K Street, N.W., Suite 600 Counsel for Petitioner Independence Washington, D.C. 20007-5109 Blue Cross Tel: (202) 672-5300 Fax: (202) 672-5399 Edward S. Bloomberg [email protected] John G. Schmidt [email protected] Anna Mercado Clark PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Counsel for Petitioner USAble Mutual One Canalside Insurance Company, d/b/a Arkansas 125 Main Street Blue Cross and Blue Shield Buffalo, NY 14203 Tel: (716) 847-8400 Fax: (716) 852-6100 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Stephen A.
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