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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP | USA | 11 Apr 2019
Changes Coming to North Carolina Medicaid in 2019
Even without expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, North Carolina has over 2.1 million residents who are Medicaid beneficiaries…
Mintz | USA | 14 Dec 2018
Antitrust Case Against BCBS to Continue Under Per Se Standard
In a long-running antitrust case, the Eleventh Circuit recently denied defendant Blue Cross Blue Shield’s interlocutory appeal of the district court’s…
Quarles & Brady LLP | USA | 31 Oct 2018
All Tricks, No Treats: Record-breaking HIPAA Settlement Announced
It’s Halloween! The nights have grown longer, black cats and jack-o-lanterns haunt the neighborhood’s porches, and in keeping with the ghoulish spirit…
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 27 Jun 2018
Fifth Circuit: Complaints Seeking Plan Benefits Need Not Quote Provisions, Especially When Insurers Refuse to Provide Documents
The Fifth Circuit recently held that plaintiffs seeking benefits, under plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and…
Akerman LLP | USA | 19 Jun 2018
Per se versus ‘Rule of Reason’ Standard: Judge in Blue Cross Antitrust MDL Proceeding Certifies His Decision For Interlocutory Appeal
In a somewhat unexpected but highly significant move, United States District Judge David Procter (Northern District of Alabama), who is presiding over…
Akerman LLP | USA | 26 Apr 2018
Reversal of Fortune: Rhode Island Court Withdraws “Tentative” Decision to Grant Summary Judgment to Health Insurer in Health System Antitrust Case and Sets Matter for Trial
In what was a surprise result, on April 23, Judge William Smith (Chief Judge of the District of Rhode Island) reversed the “tentative” decision he had…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 17 Apr 2018
Insurers a Little Bluer as Court Finds Exclusive Service Areas are Per Se Unlawful
In June of 2014, we reported on an Alabama federal district court's decision not to dismiss a multidistrict class action lawsuit challenging an…
Mintz | USA | 12 Apr 2018
Using “Old Cases,” District Court Applies Per Se Standard of Review to Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Restrictive Practices in Antitrust MDL
Since 2013, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has faced a series of purported class actions consolidated in the U.S. District Court in Alabama…
Crowell & Moring LLP | USA | 9 Apr 2018
Iowa Enacts Legislation to Broaden Access to Association Health Plans
Iowa has enacted legislation to permit the offering of certain health benefit plans that would not be subject to the restrictions of the Affordable…
Akerman LLP | USA | 9 Apr 2018
Partial Summary Judgment Granted to Plaintiffs in the In re Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation MDL Proceeding
On April 5, United States District Judge David Proctor (N.D. Alabama) granted partial summary judgment to the plaintiffs in the In re Blue Cross Blue…
