A proposed class action filed Tuesday in federal court in Atlanta accuses the Anthem Companies—the parent of Blue Cross Blue Shield health care plans in Georgia—of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act by requiring Georgia nurses charged with reviewing procedures to gauge their medical necessity to work more than 40 hours a week with no paid overtime. 

According to the complaint, the proposed class includes anyone who has worked for Anthem in Georgia as a medical or utilization management nurse, utilization review nurse, nurse reviewers or associate “or other similar positions who were paid a salary and treated as exempt from overtime laws and whose primary job was to perform medical necessity reviews” during the past three years. 

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