Cigna Health & Life Insurance Co. defeated a New Jersey medical practice’s lawsuit over nearly $400,000 in Covid-19 testing costs, after a federal judge said the practice failed to allege that it held valid benefit assignments from Cigna-insured patients.
The complaint filed by Open MRI & Imaging of RP Vestibular Diagnostics PA doesn’t explicitly allege that the practice received benefit assignment forms that would authorize it to sue Cigna on behalf of insured patients, Judge Kevin McNulty said. This pleading failure requires dismissal of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act case, McNulty said, giving the practice 30 days to file ...
