Fifth Circuit Won’t Compel Arbitration Between Hospital and Plan Administrator Who Didn’t Have Direct Contract
- June 25, 2021
The Fifth Circuit June 17 declined to compel arbitration in a payment dispute where the treating hospital and the health plan administrator did not have a direct contract. Although the two parties were connected by a web of network contracts, the appeals court affirmed the lower court’s finding that the plan administrator had no knowledge of the arbitration provision in one of the hospital’s related contracts.
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