Surgery Billing Arbitration Dispute Against Insurers Remanded By Judge

( July 14, 2026, 8:57 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge, upon reviewing the pleadings in a removed lawsuit accusing several insurers of failing to timely pay a plastic surgery office for out-of-network costs that were approved by an arbitrator, remanded the suit sua sponte after determining that the office’s claim for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), purportedly based on an alleged violation of the federal No Surprises Act (NSA), does not create federal question jurisdiction....