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The U.S. Department of Labor earlier this year filed a lawsuit accusing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota of incorrectly imposing a state provider tax on self-funded health plan customers and violating its fiduciary duties under ERISA. Now a district court has denied the organization's motion to dismiss the case.
"According to the secretary, BCBSM charged the plans nearly $67 million for MNCare tax liabilities that the plans did not owe and did not agree to pay," U.S. District Judge John Tunheim wrote. "That is a concrete injury, caused by BCBSM's billing practices and redressable by a damages award."
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