Health Insurer Pays $33 Million To Settle Chiropractors’ Payment Suit

(October 19, 2016, 3:48 PM EDT) -- NEWARK, N.J. — Horizon Healthcare Service Inc. and related companies (collectively, Horizon) has already transferred $33 million to an interest-bearing, federally insured escrow account that will be used to pay class members, settlement administration costs above the $160,000 that Horizon is obligated to pay and any attorney fees and costs under a settlement granted final approval by a New Jersey federal judge on Oct. 18, ending a class complaint filed by chiropractors alleging that Horizon systematically denied payment for certain services rendered (Alphonse A. DeMaria, et al. v. Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. d/b/a Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, et al., No. 11-7298, D. N.J.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 143941)....

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