Health Care Providers and ERISA Standing Based on Patient Assignments of Payment

North Jersey Brain & Spine Center v. Aetna, Inc., ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2015).  Judge Chagares’s concise opinion in this case today crystallized the issue near the outset.  “The question presented on appeal is whether a patient’s explicit assignment of payment of insurance benefits to her healthcare provider, without direct reference to the right […]

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