Before Attorneys’ Fee

Blue Cross to pay doctors $128 million | Miami Herald | 4.27.07

For a cash payment of $128 million, about 900,000 physicians nationwide have settled their disputes about slow pay or nonpayment of claims with 23 Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations, the parties announced Friday.

Agreeing to end the 4-year-old class-action case based in a Miami federal court, the insurers agreed to implement ”important and valuable business practice changes,” streamlining claims communications between insurers and doctors.

…that’s $142.22 per physician. See here.