Anti-Assignment Provision Bars Medical Provider’s Suit Against Health Insurer

Mealey's (May 20, 2019, 2:35 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — An anti-assignment provision in an insured’s medical benefits plan clearly bars an insured from assigning his rights under the plan to a medical provider, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said May 16 in affirming a district court’s dismissal of the medical provider’s complaint against the medical insurer (University Spine Center, on assignment of John W. v. Aetna Inc., et al., No. 18-2842, 3rd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 14588)....