Berger Montague’s Healthcare Hub
Commercial Health Insurance & ERISA Issues, Fiduciary Counseling, and Medical Drug & Device Injuries
Health Care Coverage, Counseling and Litigation Hub
Berger Montague has an exciting healthcare practice with several different areas of focus, grouped into three main categories – coverage, counseling, and litigation. In coverage disputes, we represent participants, employers and plans. Counseling is provided to plans, plan fiduciaries, and plan service providers. Litigation is brought on behalf of individuals, plan participants and beneficiaries, plan sponsors, and classes of individuals or plans.
Practice Areas Within Healthcare
Whether seeking assistance with healthcare issues related to coverage, counseling, or litigation, clients can be confident in their Berger Montague healthcare team of attorneys and other professionals.
The healthcare team at Berger Montague bring dozens of years of experience to these matters, and is comprised of former Department of Labor employees, insurance coverage attorneys, trial attorneys and attorneys with relevant niche specialties.
Counseling: We provide professional counseling to help you navigate new and existing laws
Coverage: How you can protect yourself through the law regarding healthcare
Ligitigation: Our healthcare litigation team is equipped to handle unique legal needs and offers comprehensive representation
What We Do In Coverage
What We Do In Coverage
Coverage issues include the denial of benefits under a health plan or insurance policy, disagreements in policy interpretation between a participant and the claims-handling fiduciary, proper billing involving out-of-network providers and negotiated settlements with hospitals and other facilities under reference-based-pricing plans and other alternative pricing mechanisms.
What We Do In Counseling
What We Do In Counseling
The attorneys at Berger Montague provide counseling and advice on healthcare issues, including: ERISA fiduciary compliance, plan design, vendor management and cost-cutting and quality initiatives for employer and governmental health plans, specialized training, guidance interpreting new laws and regulations governing health plans under ERISA and other federal and state legislation.
What We Do In Counseling
What We Do In Counseling
The attorneys at Berger Montague provide counseling and advice on healthcare issues, including: ERISA fiduciary compliance, plan design, vendor management and cost-cutting and quality initiatives for employer and governmental health plans, specialized training, guidance interpreting new laws and regulations governing health plans under ERISA and other federal and state legislation.
Benefits of working with Berger Montague
About Berger Montague
Over 50 years ago, Berger Montague pioneered the use of class actions in antitrust and securities litigation, and since then, has expanded the use of class actions in the fields of consumer, employment, environmental and insurance litigation, as well as in the areas of civil and human rights. Now in our fifth decade representing investors, businesses, consumers, employees and property owners, our 60+ lawyers have continued to grow into new areas.
Berger Montague’s Employee Benefits & ERISA Group represents employees who have claims under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Our firm’s Employee Benefits & ERISA Group litigates cases on behalf of employees whose 401(k) and pension investments have suffered severe losses as a result of the breach of fiduciary duties by plan administrators and the companies they represent. Under the leadership of Managing Shareholder Todd S. Collins, our Employee Benefits & ERISA Group has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in lost retirement benefits for American workers, and also favorably structured their retirement plans.
Meet the Attorneys
Co-chair of Defective Drug & Medical Device group and Consumer Protection group, member of Insurance Fraud group
Shareholder in the Whistleblower, Qui Tam & False Claims Act Group
Co-chair of the Consumer Protection group
Chair of the Employee Benefits & ERISA group and member of the Securities group
Shareholder in the firm’s Antitrust group, Employee Benefits & ERISA group, and Consumer Protection group
Senior counsel in the Consumer Protection group and Employee Benefits & ERISA group)
Senior counsel in the Employee Benefits & ERISA group
Senior counsel in the Employee Benefits & ERISA group, Consumer Protection group, Insurance Fraud group, & Healthcare Insurance Litigation group
Associate in the Firm’s Consumer Protection and Employee Benefits & ERISA practice groups
Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Consumer Protection practice group
Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Consumer Protection practice group
Shareholder in complex consumer protection, employee benefits & ERISA, product defects, mass tort, insurance, and employment cases
News & What’s Noteworthy
Berger Montague healthcare cases and attorneys in the news – links directly to news articles, maybe with a sentence or two giving context and mentioning a practice group (or adding tags). Anything we add here should also link to the relevant group and should be listed under the attorney bio whose name(s) are mentioned.
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