Judge: Benefits Assignment Can’t Save Provider’s Suit Against Health Insurer

(July 19, 2018, 4:15 PM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — It is impossible to tell from an illegible assignment of benefits just what powers an insured was granting his provider, and nothing in the complaint suggests that the assignment satisfied the requirements stated in the summary plan description, a federal judge in New Jersey held in dismissing an action on June 28 (University Spine Center, et al. v. United Healthcare, No. 17-8789, D. N.J., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107828)....

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