Mealey's (March 31, 2021, 2:12 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — Patients and not behavioral health providers are the directly injured parties in a suit alleging racketeering and antitrust claims, and because sorting out the proper payment necessarily invokes Employee Retirement Income Security Act plans, conflict preemption dooms the state law claims, a federal in California said March 29 in dismissing a suit seeking in excess of a million dollars in allegedly uncompensated care....