11th Circuit: Doctor States No Reimbursement Claim Against Employers, Insurer

Mealey's (March 4, 2021, 8:06 AM EST) -- ATLANTA — A doctor who has filed more than two dozen lawsuits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act seeking payments from health plans via assignment of benefits by her patients fails to state a claim in her two recent lawsuits against two employers and an insurer bringing claims for in-network payment amounts as an out-of-network provider and nonpayment claims, a 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 24 in its first published opinion in appeals by the doctor “in hopes of resolving this recurring litigation.”...