The Leapfrog Group is deeply grateful to the organizations that filed amicus briefs in support of our appeal in Good Samaritan Medical Center, Inc., et al. v. The Leapfrog Group, currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
We appreciate the time, expertise and perspective of these organizations in speaking to the importance of free speech, independent ratings, transparency and the critical need for purchasers, employers and the public to access life-saving information about health care quality and safety.
The amicus briefs filed in support of Leapfrog include:
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
- Cato Institute
- Institute for Free Speech
- Patient Safety Action Network
- PatientRightsAdvocate.org, Inc.
- Patients for Patient Safety US
- The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Consumer Reports
- The New York Times Company
- Yelp, Inc.
Among the 31 signatories: the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (“CalPERS”)—the second largest individual healthcare purchaser in the country, after the federal government—a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, two former Directors of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a former Member of Congress, former state health commissioners and secretaries, former chief executives and chief medical officers of major health systems and health plans, the founder of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and coalitions of employers and public purchasers whose members spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually on health care for tens of millions of Americans.
These briefs make clear that the implications of this appeal extend far beyond Leapfrog. We thank the organizations that stepped forward to lend their voices and expertise to this critical court battle.