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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS


S. WILLIAM PARIS, Plaintiff-Appellant,
V

UNPUBLISHED November 22, 2005

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN, Defendant-Appellee.

No. 255643 Wayne Circuit Court LC No. 04-409568-CZ

Before: Smolenski, P.J., and Schuette and Borrello, JJ. PER CURIAM. Plaintiff appeals as of right from the circuit court's order granting defendant's motion for summary disposition, dissolving a temporary restraining order, and dismissing the case. We affirm. This appeal is being decided without oral argument pursuant to MCR 7.214(E). Defendant administers a network of preferred provider organizations, with which plaintiff, an allergist, became affiliated in 1985. Defendant began expressing concerns about plaintiff's costs in total, and per patient, in 2003. Because plaintiff did not reduce his costs to defendant's satisfaction in the months that followed, defendant decided to disaffiliate plaintiff. Plaintiff protested through internal procedures, but defendant provided him with notice that his disaffiliation would be effective as of April 5, 2004. Plaintiff filed suit seeking a permanent injunction against his disaffiliation, and requesting unspecified damages. The complaint refers to provisions of the Nonprofit Health Care Corporation Reform Act, MCL 550.1101 et seq., with emphasis on

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