Legal Opinion
Fossen v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Montana, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 18, 2011No. 10-36001PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
M. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question of whether a provision of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Pub.L. No. 104-191, 110 Stat.1936 (1996), preempts Montana’s “little HIPAA” law, Mont.Code Ann. § 33-22-526(2)(a), for purposes of both conferring federal subject matter jurisdiction and defeating state-law causes of action on the merits. The federal and state HIPAA provisions at issue prohibit certain health insurers from charging different premiums to “similarly situated” participants on account of a participant’s “health…
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