BCBS Fraud Claims Against Labs Can Go to Trial

December 17, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Georgia Inc. won’t be forced to arbitrate all its disputes against a group of health-care entities that allegedly duped it into paying too much for urine tests.

Most of BCBS’s fraud and breach of contract claims against DL Investment Holdings LLC, Reliance Laboratory Testing Inc., Medivance Billing Service Inc., and their owners can now proceed in court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia said Dec. 14.

BSBC had three contracts with Chestatee Regional Hospital. Chestatee assigned the contracts to DL. It then allegedly became a shell through which laboratory tests ...

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