Arapahoe Surgery Center, LLC et al v. CIGNA Healthcare, Inc. et al

Filing 54

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER approved by Magistrate Judge Craig B. Shaffer on 06/17/2014. (Attachments: # 1 Agreement Re: Related Action, # 2 Stipulation Re: ESI) (cbslc1)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
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Civil Action No. 13-cv-03422
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ARAPAHOE SURGERY CENTER, LLC,
CHERRY CREEK SURGERY CENTER, LLC,
HAMPDEN SURGERY CENTER, LLC,
KISSING CAMELS SURGERY CENTER, LLC,
SURGCENTER OF BEL AIR, LLC, and
WESTMINSTER SURGERY CENTER, LLC,
Plaintiffs,
v.
CIGNA HEALTHCARE, INC.,
CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
CIGNA HEALTHCARE - MID-ATLANTIC, INC., and
CIGNA HEALTHCARE OF COLORADO, INC.,
Defendants.
______________________________________________________________________
AGREEMENT REGARDING THE PRODUCTION OF MATERIALS FROM RELATED
ACTION
______________________________________________________________________
Plaintiffs and Counterclaim Defendants Arapahoe Surgery Center, LLC
(“Arapahoe”), Cherry Creek Surgery Center, LLC (“Cherry Creek”), Hampden Surgery
Center, LLC (“Hampden”), Kissing Camels Surgery Center, LLC (“Kissing Camels”),
SurgCenter

of

Bel

Air,

LLC

(“Bel

Air”),

Westminster

Surgery

Center

LLC

(“Westminster”), and Surgical Center Development, Inc. d/b/a SurgCenter Development
(“SurgCenter”) (collectively, “Plaintiffs and Counterclaim Defendants”), Defendants and
Counterclaim Plaintiffs Cigna Healthcare, Inc., Connecticut General Life Insurance

Company, Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Cigna Healthcare - Mid-Atlantic,
Inc., and Cigna Healthcare of Colorado, Inc. (collectively, “Cigna” or “Defendants and
Counterclaim Plaintiffs”) (individually, a “Party” and collectively, the “Parties”), and those
entities that are or have been parties or participated in discovery in Kissing Camels
Surgery Center, LLC et al v. HCA, Inc., et al., 12-cv-3012 (D. Colo.) (“The HCA Action”)
HCA Inc., HCA-HealthONE LLC, Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service, Inc.
d/b/a Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado, Colorado Ambulatory Surgery
Center Association, Audubon Ambulatory Surgical Center, LLC, Aetna, Inc., Centura
Health Corporation, United Healthcare of Colorado, Inc., the Kaiser Foundation Health
Plan of Colorado, Humana Health Plan, Inc., and Pinnacle III (together with Arapahoe,
Cherry Creek, Hampden, and Kissing Camels, the “HCA Parties”) agree as follows
regarding the production of materials in the HCA Action to the Parties in the abovecaptioned Action:
1.

The HCA Parties agree that each Party to the above-captioned Action

shall have the right to use all materials produced in and associated with the HCA Action,
including documents and data produced by any party or non-party, answers to
interrogatories, responses to requests for production, responses to requests for
admission, responses to non-party subpoenas, expert disclosures, and deposition
testimony (“HCA Action Materials”) for any purpose in connection with the abovecaptioned Action, so long as such use does not violate the terms of the HCA Protective
Orders (defined in Section 2 of this Agreement) or any protective order entered in the
above-captioned Action. For the avoidance of doubt, the HCA Action Materials shall be

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used by the Parties to the above-captioned Action or the HCA Action solely in
connection with the above-captioned Action or the HCA Action and for no other
purpose, and agree that any breach of this commitment will cause damage and harm to
the offended HCA Party(ies).
2.

The Parties to the above-captioned Action agree to be bound by and

comply with the terms of the protective orders in the HCA Action dated April 8, 2013
(D.E. 79) and October 10, 2013 (D.E. 141) (the “HCA Protective Orders”) with respect to
HCA Action Materials, and agree that the HCA Action Materials shall be afforded any
additional protections contained in any protective order entered into in the abovecaptioned Action. The Parties to the above-captioned Action also agree to provide to
the remaining non-dismissed Defendants in the HCA Action any documents produced
by Cigna and/or the Colorado-based entities in the above-captioned Action within the
scope of any of the discovery requests served by any of the parties in the HCA Action,
at the time such documents are produced, and pursuant to and subject to the
compliance of the party receiving such production with the HCA Protective Orders,
unless and until the Parties to the HCA Action notify the Parties to the above-captioned
Action that such production is no longer necessary. Any disputes regarding compliance
with the HCA Protective Orders shall be raised with the Court overseeing the HCA
Action.
3.

To the extent a party notices a deposition in the HCA Action, counsel for

such party agrees to provide Cigna with sufficient advance notice of all depositions
scheduled to take place in the HCA Action and to coordinate with Cigna regarding the

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scheduling of depositions in the HCA Action, so that Cigna may participate in such
depositions. Counsel for the Parties to the above-captioned Action agree to provide the
non-dismissed HCA Parties with advance notice of all depositions scheduled to take
place in the above-captioned Action and to coordinate with the HCA Parties regarding
the scheduling of depositions in the above-captioned Action, so that the HCA Parties
may participate in such depositions, unless and until the Parties to the HCA Action
notify the Parties to the above-captioned Action that such notice and coordination is no
longer necessary.
4.

Plaintiffs and Counterclaim Defendants agree to produce to Cigna all HCA

Action materials in its possession as of the date of this Agreement within two weeks of
the execution of this agreement by counsel for the Parties and counsel for the HCA
Parties, and further to agree to produce to Cigna any additional HCA Action Materials
produced thereafter at the time such materials are produced.

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APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT
Dated: June 16. 2014
Respectfully submitted,
By: /s/ Joe R. Whatley, Jr.
Joe R. Whatley, Jr.
Colorado State Bar No. 38820
WHATLEY KALLAS, LLP
720 East Durant Avenue, Suite E6
Aspen, CO 81611
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

By: /s/ Edwin P. Aro
Edwin P. Aro
ARNOLD & PORTER LLP
370 Seventeenth Street, Suite 4400
Denver, CO 80202
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]
Joshua B. Simon
Warren Haskel
Ryan D. McEnroe
KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
601 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Edith M. Kallas
WHATLEY KALLAS, LLP
380 Madison Avenue, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Deborah J. Winegard
WHATLEY KALLAS, LLP
1068 Virginia Avenue, NE
Atlanta, GA 30306
Tel.: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Counsel for Defendants and Counterclaim
Plaintiffs

W. Tucker Brown
WHATLEY KALLAS, LLP
2001 Park Place Tower, Suite 1000
Birmingham, AL 35203
Tel.: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Henry C. Quillen
WHATLEY KALLAS, LLP
1259 Middle Street, Suite 2C
Portsmouth, NH 03801

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Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Counsel for Plaintiffs, Counterclaim
Defendants, and Plaintiffs in Kissing
Camels Surgery Center, LLC et al v. HCA,
Inc., et al., 12-cv-3012 (D. Colo.)
/s/ E. Desmond Hogan
Craig A. Hoover
E. Desmond Hogan
HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP
555 13th Street NW
Columbia Square
Washington, DC 20004-1109
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

/s/ Kevin J. Arquit
Kevin J. Arquit
SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP
425 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3954
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
John A. Francis
Erin McAlpin Eiselein
Natalie West
DAVIS GRAHAM & STUBBS LLP
1550 17th Street, Suite 500
Denver, CO 80202
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Michael C. Theis
David A. DeMarco
HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP
1200 17th Street
One Tabor Center
Suite 1500
Denver, CO 80202
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Abram J. Ellis
SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP
1155 F Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Attorneys for HCA Inc. and HCAHealthONE LLC

Attorneys for Rocky Mountain Hospital and
Medical Service, Inc. d/b/a Anthem Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado

/s/ Kathryn A. Reilly
Kathryn A. Reilly, #37331
Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP
370 Seventeenth Street, Suite 4500
Denver, CO 80202-5647

/s/ Lawrence J. Katz
Lawrence J. Katz
Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP
360 South Garfield Street, 6th Floor
Denver, CO 80209

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Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]

Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]
Attorney for Audubon Ambulatory Surgical
Center, LLC

Attorneys for Colorado Ambulatory Surgery
Center Association

/s/ Melvin B. Sabey
Melvin B. Sabey
KUTAK ROCK LLP
1801 California Street, Suite 3100
Denver, CO 80202
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]

/s/ Joshua Lipton
Joshua Lipton
GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP
1500 Connecticut Ave., N.W., 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5303
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]

Thomas Demitrack
Robert E. Haffke
JONES DAY
901 Lakeside Avenue East
Cleveland, OH 44114
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Laura Sturges
GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP
1801 California Street, Suite 4200
Denver, CO 80202-2642
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Attorneys for Aetna, Inc.

Toby G. Singer
JONES DAY
51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]

/s/ Jonathan S. Bender
James E. Hartley
Geraldine A. Brimmer
Jonathan S. Bender
Nadya C. Bosch
Holland & Hart LLP
555 17th Street, Suite 3200
Denver, CO 80202
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Attorneys for Centura Health Corporation

/s/ Andrew D. Ringel
Andrew D. Ringel
Daniel Furman
Hall & Evans, LLC-Denver
1001 17th Street
Suite 300
Attorneys for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Denver, CO 80202
Te: [phone]
of Colorado
Fax: [phone]

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[e-mail]
[e-mail]

/s/ Richard Benenson
Richard B. Benenson
Karl L. Schock
Lawrence W. Treece
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
410 17th Street #2200
Denver, CO 80202-4432
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Attorneys for Humana Health Plan, Inc.
/s/ Kelly Duke
Kelly Duke
Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC
717 17th Street, Suite 2800
Denver, CO 80202
Direct: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]

Attorneys for United Healthcare
of Colorado, Inc.

Attorneys for Pinnacle III

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