Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield v. Freeway Surgery Center

Cite as 2023 Ark. App. 125
ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
No. CV-22-515

ARKANSAS BLUE CROSS Opinion Delivered March 1, 2023
AND BLUE SHIELD
APPELLANT APPEAL FROM THE PULASKI
COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, FIFTH
V. DIVISION
[NO. 60CV-21-2725]
FREEWAY SURGERY CENTER; SCOTT
SCHLESINGER, M.D.; FAIR PARK HONORABLE WENDELL GRIFFEN,
SURGERY CENTER; CENTERVIEW JUDGE
SURGERY CENTER; SOUTH
ARKANSAS SURGERY CENTER;
ADVANCED AMBULATORY SURGERY
CENTER; EXECUTIVE PARK MONETARY SANCTION PURGED
SURGERY CENTER OF FORT SMITH;
GASTROENTEROLOGY AND
SURGERY CENTER OF ARKANSAS;
MOUNTAIN HOME SURGERY
CENTER; HARRISON SURGERY
CENTER; BOZMAN-HOF EYE
CENTER; PHYSICIANS DAY A/K/A
MCFARLAND EYE CENTER; SPRING
CREEK SURGERY CENTER; TAYLOR
PLASTIC SURGERY; SURGERY
CENTER OF NORTHEAST TEXAS;
ADVANCED INTERVENTIONAL PAIN
MANAGEMENT; PRECISION
SURGICAL OF NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS; EXECUTIVE SURGERY
CENTER OF LITTLE ROCK; CENTRAL
ARKANSAS SURGERY CENTER A/K/A
ARKANSAS SPINE AND PAIN; AND
ARKANSAS CENTER FOR SURGICAL
EXCELLENCE
APPELLEES

AND

ALAN MCCLAIN, ARKANSAS
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
INTERESTED PARTY
PER CURIAM

In a recent opinion, this court accepted court reporter Neva Warford’s plea that she

engaged in contumacious behavior before this court. See Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield

v. Freeway Surgery Center, 2023 Ark. App. 91. Having accepted her guilty plea, we issued

sanctions. One was a $3,000 monetary sanction against Ms. Warford. Id. We stated,

however, that it would be purged upon the completion of certain conditions. Id. Based on

the information now filed of record, we hold that Ms. Warford has met the conditions

needed to purge the $3,000 sanction that we conditionally imposed on 15 February 2023.

Consequently, the monetary sanction is hereby purged, and Ms. Warford has no obligation

to pay any sum in this case.

GRUBER, J., not participating.

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