3174 A health care service plan owes to providers of health care no duty to assure that intermediaries with whom the providers and the plan have contracted are financially stable and does not commit an unlawful business practice by contracting with and paying such intermediaries while knowing that they are not financially stable.CitationDESERT HEALTHCARE v PACIFICARE (Insolvent Intermediaries) 94 CA4 781 [See: H&SC 1340 etseq; B&PC 17200 etseq; Bily v Arthur Young 3 C4 370, T/AT 11/92; Biakanja v Irving 49 C2 647; Stop Youth Addiction v Lucky 17 C4 553, T/AT 6/00]
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