River Park Hospital, Inc. v. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the trial court’s finding of “a contract implied in law, i.e., unjust enrichment,” and remanding to determine “a reasonable rate of reimbursement”
• affirming trial court’s finding that insurer was unjustly enriched by provider’s provision of services to insurer’s enrollees
• defining “balance billing” as “the practice of a provider billing an enrollee for any amount charged by the provider but not paid by the [insurance plan].”
• out-of-network provider insisted on insurance company paying “standard” rates for patients it was required to treat while insurance company insisted on paying much lower “in-network” rates
• “[A] hospital must provide services to a person with an emergency medical condition until the person’s condition has stabilized, without regard to whether the person has insurance.”
• “[T]he terms ‘unjust enrichment’ and ‘contract implied in law’ are used virtually interchangeably.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).