Elevance Subsidiary Hit With Home Health Auditors Overtime Suit

A clinical assessor paid by an Elevance Health Inc. subsidiary to scrutinize home-health costs is suing to get overtime for her and a proposed collective of an estimated 400 workers.

Liza Norton, a Florida resident, says that Nashville-based CareBridge Medical Group hired her to work a 40-hour remote job analyzing home health treatment. In reality, the job required routine overtime which the company refused to pay, and clinicians were stripped of discretion and told to find cuts or lose their jobs, according to the complaint, filed Monday in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

“Defendants ...