To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Recently, a three-judge panel in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a district court dismissal of an out-of-network provider’s claims against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (“BCBSIL”). The unanimous panel found that BCBSIL had waived its right to raise the anti-assignment clauses in the applicable plan documents as a basis for dismissal of the provider’s claims because BCBSIL did not raise the anti-assignment clauses as a defense to the provider’s claims during the administrative appeal of the claims. ( Beverly Oaks Physicians Surgical Ctr., LLC v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, No. 19-55820 (9