Judge: Insurer’s Website Plan Details Can’t Support Hospitals’ Compensation Case

(October 12, 2023, 8:29 AM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — References to how an insurer’s website portrays its plans’ out-of-network compensation do not sufficiently allege that hospitals were entitled to additional compensation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and nothing in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) regulations precludes balance billing, a federal judge in New Jersey said in dismissing a case....