March 07, 2019
Several Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates must face an Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing them of underpaying a group of hospitals, but they can do so in the Eastern District of Texas, a federal judge for the state's Western District said.
October 04, 2018
HealthNow New York Inc. has asked a Texas federal court just to allow it to escape an Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit from seven affiliated hospitals which had claimed that dozens of Blue Cross Blue Shield entities underpaid them by tens of millions of dollars.
September 17, 2018
Seven affiliated hospitals — five of them bankrupt — have urged a Texas federal judge to spare their Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit claiming that dozens of Blue Cross Blue Shield entities underpaid them by tens of millions of dollars, arguing the Western District of Texas is a proper venue for the litigation.
July 20, 2018
Numerous Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates urged a Texas federal judge to toss an amended suit accusing them of flouting the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying or reducing reimbursements for certain out-of-network claims, arguing that the hospitals failed to fix the venue issues found in their first complaint.
March 07, 2018
A Texas magistrate judge on Tuesday said a pair of Blue Cross Blue Shield plan administrators can't escape claims they underpaid five bankrupt and two nonbankrupt hospitals in the Victory Medical Center chain by $34.5 million on jurisdictional grounds, but that they will have the chance to switch venues to their home states.