Volume 22

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 892a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2208ORTHInsurance — Discovery — Trade secret privilege — Trial court erred in compelling disclosure of contract with medical provider’s supplier without determining whether contract constituted trade secret and, if so, whether there was reasonable necessity for production

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 742a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2206ZALDInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Documents — Trade secrets — Although contracts between medical provider and HMO/PPO carriers are trade secrets, reimbursements amounts contained in contracts are not — Provider is directed to reveal reimbursements amounts without identifying actual HMO/PPO carriers involved

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 741b

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2206CEDEInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Trade secrets — Although contracts between medical provider and HMO/PPO carriers are trade secrets, reimbursement amounts contained in contracts are not — Provider is directed to reveal reimbursements amounts without identifying actual HMO/PPO carriers involved

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 884a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2208PORTInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Interrogatories — Trade secrets — Although trial court order requiring medical provider to reveal payment amounts it received from insurance companies and uninsured patients for CPT codes at issue allowed provider to maintain anonymity of insurance companies, court erred in failing to include clear legal conclusion that amounts and identities of payors constituted trade secrets

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 278a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2202VOLPInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Documents — To protect irrelevant proprietary information on otherwise discoverable rate sheets of private payors, medical provider is directed to prepare matrix reflecting identity of contracting parties, dates covered by agreements and rate sheets, nature and type of insurance reimbursement, and type of service being billed for CPT codes at issue in case and rates for each service

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 745c

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2206GJOHInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — HMO and PPO contracts between medical provider and other insurers are confidential, trade secret, and proprietary documents that are not discoverable and cannot reasonably lead to discoverable evidence — Medicare fee rates are not relevant to determination of reasonableness of charges in PIP case — Request to produce “letters of protection” inquires into issues not raised in pleadings and is, therefore, not relevant to litigation

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 741c

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2206HERNInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Documents — Trade secrets — Although contracts between medical provider and HMO/PPO carriers are trade secrets, reimbursements amounts contained in contracts are not — Provider is directed to reveal reimbursements amounts without identifying actual HMO/PPO carriers involved

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 740a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2206TMORInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Depositions — HMO and PPO contracts between medical provider and other insurers are confidential and proprietary information, and neither contracts nor testimony about their contents is discoverable

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 706a

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2206PRIMInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Contracts and agreements relating to reimbursement of medical provider by HMO, PPO and private insurance carriers and reimbursement rates accepted by provider from Medicaid and Medicare are not discoverable in PIP action — Reimbursement rates accepted from other PIP carriers and from third-party payors with which provider does not have negotiated rate contracts are discoverable

22 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 745b

Online Reference: FLWSUPP 2206COHEInsurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Interrogatories — Medical provider is not required to disclose reimbursement rates accepted from health insurers, workers’ compensation, Medicaid, Medicare, and cash-paying patients — Provider is required to disclose whether it accepted an amount from other Florida no fault insurers for CPT codes at issue that is less than amount paid by insurer