Mealey's (October 1, 2020, 1:16 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A surgery provider adequately alleges that an insurer should be estopped from untimely raising an anti-assignment provision and demonstrates entitlement to benefits under an insurance health care plan, a federal judge in California said Sept. 25 in extending a Ninth Circuit U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling and denying dismissal (California Spine and Neurosurgery Institute v. Blue Cross of California, No. 18-4777, N.D. Calif.)....