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LOUISIANA HEALTH SERVICE v. RAPIDES HEALTHCARE

No. 04-31114.

461 F.3d 529 (2006)

LOUISIANA HEALTH SERVICE & INDEMNITY CO., d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Plaintiff-Intervenor Defendant-Appellant, v. RAPIDES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM; State of Louisiana; Charles R. Foti, Jr., Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Defendants-Appellees, v. Dauterive Hospital, Intervenor Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 16, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Shapiro (argued), Heather G. Magier, Proskauer Rose, New Orleans, LA, V. Thomas Clark, Jr., Leigh F. Groves, Crawford & Lewis, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Intervenor Defendant-Appellant.

James Randall Nelson (argued), DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Dallas, TX, Amelia Williams Koch, Steven Franklin Griffith, Jr., Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, LA, for Rapides Healthcare System and Dauterive Hosp.

Thomas More Flanagan (argued), Jennifer L. Thornton, Thomas Patrick Owern, Jr., Stanley, Flanagan & Reuter, New Orleans, LA, for State of LA and Foti.

Mary Ellen Signorille, AARP, Washington, DC, for AARP, Amicus Curiae.

James K. Irvin, Roselyn B. Koretzky, Miling Benson Woodward, New Orleans, LA, for LA Hosp. Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DeMOSS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Section 40:2010 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes requires insurance companies to honor all assignments of benefit claims made by patients to hospitals. This case asks us to decide whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 preempts the assignment statute to the extent that it applies to fully insured ERISA plans. We hold that Louisiana's assignment statute is not preempted.

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