On November 3, 2010, Eric Katz, New Jersey health care trial and class action attorney, made a presentation to the New Jersey Hospital Association in Princeton.  Mr. Katz discussed his land mark physician class action settlement against Horizon Blue Cross and how certain aspects of that settlement would be highly beneficial to New Jersey's hospitals.  The presentation was attended by over 50 hospital executives.

Sutter-Settlement-Powerpoint.pdf (867.04 kb)

A class action settlement, valued as much as $50 million, between New Jersey physicians and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey was approved by the Superior Court of New Jersey on June 16th.  The settlement removes the "black box" in which Horizon has been processing claims submitted by physicians.  Under the settlement terms, among several other benefits, Horizon must dislcose to physicians all fee schedule information and provide an interactive web tool that allows physicians to input procedure codes before services are rendered in order to learn how Horizon will process and pay those codes.  In addition, a dedicated liaision was established to assist capitated physicians to enable them to be paid properly and quickly for the services they render.  Our law firm represented the Class in this action.  The Court's complete opinion is attached to this post.

Sutter Opinion.doc (77.50 kb)