El Paso Healthcare System, Ltd. v. Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the insurance company “did receive the benefit of having its obligations to its plan members . . . discharged”
• holding plaintiffs conferred a benefit upon defendants because rules governing Medicaid required insurers to pay for care provided on an emergency basis (citing N.M. Admin. Code § 8.305.7.9–11)
• “[A]s a matter of hornbook law, contractual rights may be assigned gratuitously—such an assignment is not void for lack of consideration, and the assignee has standing to sue to enforce or protect those gratuitously obtained rights”
• “While it is true that the immediate beneficiaries of the medical services were the patients, and not Molina, that company did receive the benefit of having its obligations to its plan members, and to the state in the interests of plan members, discharged.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).