Anti-Assignment Provision Bars Doctor’s Claims Against Health Insurer, Panel Says

Mealey's (October 26, 2018, 12:01 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A doctor’s suit against a health plan and a plan administrator was properly dismissed, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Oct. 25 because the plan’s anti-assignment provision prohibited the plan participant from assigning the right to obtain plan benefits to the doctor and because the doctor had no right to obtain the plan documents as the original assignment of rights did not include a transfer of those rights (W.A. Griffin v. United Healthcare of Georgia Inc. et al., No. 18-10208, 11th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 30058)....