Mealey's (November 21, 2019, 2:30 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A medical provider’s suit seeking compensation for what it claims are the rates an insurer agreed to pay for insured’s treatments alleges the type of independent obligation separate from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan, a federal judge in Louisiana said Nov. 18 (Crescent City Surgical Center v. United Healthcare of Louisiana, et al., No. 19-12586, E.D. La., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 199009)....