Dive Brief:

An Elevance health plan is suing two Georgia providers and billing company HaloMd, accusing them of illegally gaming the arbitration system set up by the No Surprises Act to help payers and providers settle disputes over out-of-network claims.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, which does business under Elevance’s Anthem brand, filed a complaint Tuesday in federal court against HaloMd, Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of Georgia and Sound Physicians Emergency Medicine of Georgia.

The lawsuit alleges the three companies conspired to bilk millions of dollars from BCBSGA and other plans by flooding the independent dispute resolution process with thousands of ineligible disputes. It asks a judge to retroactively nullify the providers’ IDR awards and prevent the

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