Law360 (December 7, 2023, 5:12 PM EST) — The Arizona arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield is coming out swinging against what it calls a “kitchen-sink complaint” brought by groups representing hundreds of doctors claiming the insurer has unfairly been paying them as in-network providers, saying that the attempt to “coerce greater reimbursement is legally insufficient in fatal ways.”

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona Inc. is paying the individual doctors it had contracts with according to their contracts, and it’s using the independent arbitration process established by the No Surprises Act for out-of-network providers and insurers to settle disputes with the rest, it told an Arizona federal court Tuesday.

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