Christus Health Gulf Coast v. Aetna, Inc. and Aetna Health, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a provider may sue an HMO under the Texas Prompt Payment Statutes if the parties are in contractual privity
• holding “the Prompt Pay Statute contemplates contractual privity between HMOs and providers”
• construing the Insurance Code and noting that “[w]e must take the Legislature at its word, respect its policy choices, and resist revising a statute under the guise of interpreting it”
• in matters of statutory construction we \begin (and often end) with the Legislature's chosen language\
• “We must take the Legislature at its word, respect its policy choices, and resist revising a statute under the guise of interpreting it.”
• We \begin (and often end) with the Legislature's chosen language.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).