Voting 2-1, a federal appeals court has ruled Wednesday that the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society might have legal standing to sue a group of HMOs on behalf of its member psychiatrists and their patients to challenge what it claims are unfair refusals to pay for psychiatric services.
In Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society v. Green Spring Health Services Inc., the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that PPS may be able to prove its case with only limited involvement of its members and, therefore, would have “associational standing” to press its members’ claims.
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