Reuters

Second assignments in health litigation: Can medical debt collectors sue?

January 2, 2024 - A routine practice in health care practices is the assignment of a patient's rights to benefits ("AOB") under a health plan to the patient's provider. Often, medical providers do not ...
California Healthline

Medi-Cal Officials Assess Gold Coast Health Plan’s Assignment Procedures

The Ventura County Medi-Cal Managed Care Commission has formed a committee to study how beneficiaries covered by Gold Coast Health Plan have been assigned to clinics and physicians, the Ventura County ...
Becker's ASC

Improving nurse satisfaction at Lee Health: Leveraging data-driven patient assignments to achieve a 10% reduction in workload imbalances and an 11% increase in staff productivity

The nurse-patient assignment process for infusion centers is a critical component of patient care. However, the manual assignment methods used at most infusion centers are inefficient, add ...
JD Supra

New ERISA Case Results in Another Assignment for Today – Ensure your Group Health Plan’s Claims Administrator is Raising Anti-Assignment during the Claims and Appeals Process!

Anti-assignment clauses in ERISA health plans are useful to plan sponsors in fending off lawsuits by out-of-network providers. Federal courts have consistently upheld anti-assignment provisions ...

Midland Health Selects Medaptus Assign to Automate and Optimize Hospitalist Patient Assignment

MIDLAND, Texas, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Medaptus today announced that Midland Health, a not-for-profit hospital in Midland County, Texas, has selected Medaptus' Assign solution to automate its ...
Healthcare Dive

Home care agency settles allegations it accommodated ‘race-based requests’ for aides

ACARE HHC, Inc., which does business as Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency, agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the ...