plans may effectively limit them to services offered at Grant does not alter this conclusion. If plaintiffs’ practice of pain medicine is, as Dr. Leak avers, truly more cost effective than traditional pain management used by anesthesiologists, then both the hospitals at which plaintiffs have privileges and plaintiffs have a competitive advantage over the defendant anesthesiologists. See Dr. Leak affidavit para. 24 & exhibit D. If pain medicine is more cost-effective than traditional pain management, then in an open and competitive marketplace managed care insurance plans should eventually be more inclined to designate those hospitals at which pain medicine is practiced. See Capital Imaging Assoc., P.C. v. Mohawk Valley Medical Assoc., Inc., 725 F.Supp. 669, 673 (N.D.N.Y. 1989) (<HOLDING>). In these circumstances, the Court concludes
recognizing right to privacy in receipt of health care services to the extent consistent with providing adequate medical care and the safety and good order of the facility holding whistleblower protections available under the washington health care act rcw 4370075 adequately promoted workplace safety ensured compliance with the accepted standard of care and prevented fraudulent billing in the health care industry recognizing that the selective nature of managed care insurance plans is procompetitive and reduces health care costs holding claim that negligent supervision caused assault was health care liability claim because it was inseparable from the health care and nursing services provided holding that standard of care need not be listed separately in report when same standard applies to each health care provider