Judge: Anti-Assignment Provision Rings Death Knell For ERISA, Parity Act Claims

Mealey's (June 29, 2021, 1:51 PM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A health plan’s anti-assignment provision leaves a mental health and addiction treatment provider without standing to sue, and nothing in the insurer’s actions waived the provision or estops it from asserting the defense, a federal judge in Texas said June 25 in granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss....