Matthew Lavin
Partner
Matt Lavin is a Partner in Napoli Shkolnik PLLC’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a litigator who represents healthcare providers and their patients, with a particular focus on behavioral healthcare and the substance abuse treatment industry.
Prior to joining our firm, Mr. Lavin spent 5 years working at one of the most successful substance abuse treatment center networks in the country. He has experience with every aspect of the behavioral health treatment industry including payor relationships, audits, assignments of benefits, third-party repricing, marketing, finance, regulatory and clinical matters.
Mr. Lavin’s previous background includes representing policyholders in large-scale insurance coverage litigation. His current practice involves litigation against commercial payors and employee benefit plans related to enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Parity Act), ERISA, state consumer protection laws and other claims by patients and providers seeking reimbursement for wrongly denied behavioral health and addiction treatment services. Previously, he was a partner with a Washington D.C. law firm where he was involved in commercial litigation.
- Bar Admissions
- Bar of District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- Education
- Tulane University, J.D.
- New York University, B.A.
- Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association
- Speaking Engagements
Perspective Litigation As A Business Tool, 360 Degree Viewpoint: Fight for Your Right to Payment (July 2019)
- Media Appearances
High Court ERISA Ruling Frees States To Tackle Health Costs, Law360 (February 5, 2021)
3 Benefits Takeaways From New Surprise Medical Billing Law, Law360 (January 15, 2021)
Napoli Shkolnik’ s PLLC Matt Lavin, one of the attorneys representing the United Behavioral Health patients in the CA suit, said plan administrator often think they can get away with underpaying medical providers – causing those doctors to bill patients for the remainder of the treatment cost – because the providers and patients lack the resources to fight it.
UBH Can’t Sink ERISA Suit Over Surprise Medical Bills, Law360 (December 21, 2020)
New York ER docs sue UnitedHealth for alleged underpayments, FierceHealthcare (November 3, 2020)
ER physicians accuse UnitedHealth of illegally underpaying claims, Becker’s Hospital Review (November 4, 2020)
New York ER Doctors Sue UnitedHealth Over Out-of-Network Claims, Bloomberg Law (November 3, 2020)
Court Urged Not To Ax underpayment Suits Against Cigna, Law360 (June 26, 2020)
Cigna, Viant Want Out of Behavioral Health Care Suit, Law360 (June 5, 2020)
Covid-19 Called Poor Excuse for Delaying Mental Health Suits, Bloomberg Law (May 27, 2020)
Lawsuits accuse United, Cigna of underpaying for behavioral health claims, MedCity News (April 9, 2020)
UnitedHealthcare, Cigna sued for allegedly underpaying behavioral health claims, Becker’s Hospital Review (April 8, 2020)
UnitedHealth, Cigna, Viant Accused of Fraudulently ‘Repricing’ Behavioral Health Bills in Class-Action Suits, Health Payer Specialist (April 8, 2020)
UnitedHealth,Cigna accused of underpaying out-of-network providers, Modern Healthcare (April 6, 2020)
United And Cigna cheat Patients on Benefit Money, Suit Say, Law360 (April 3, 2020)
Cigna, United Underpaid Out-of-Network Claims, Lawsuit Alleges, Bloomberg Law (April 3, 2020)
Patients and Behavioral Health Providers Sue Viant, Cigna and United for Conspriing to Underpay Out-of-Network Claims, As Covered By:
- Yahoo! Finance
- MarketWatch
- KTVN-TV CBS-2
- WFMJ-TV NBC-21
- KOTV-TV-CBS-6
- KWTV-TV CBS-9
- KAKE-TV ABC
- WBOC-TV CBS-16
- WRCB-TV NBC-3
- KVOR 740-AM
- WFMZ-TV-69
- Seeking Alpha
- Spoke
- Daily Herald
- The Buffalo News
- VB Profiles
- Minyanville
- myMotherLode
- 1st Discount Brokerage
- Ascensus
- Participant Education Center
- Daily Penny Alerts
- Dow Theory Letters
- Value Investing News
- Franklin Credit Management
- BioSpace
- MorningStar
NRWA Files Class Action Lawsuit Against PFAS Manufacturers, Water Quality Products (WQP) (February 27,2020)
Rural Utilities Latest to Sue 3M Over Chemical Cleanup, Law360 (February 26, 2020)
Lawsuit Filed in DC Seeks Money for Testing, Treatment for Controversial Chemicals Contaminating Water, WUSA-9 (February 25, 2020)
NRWA Files Groundbreaking Class Action Lawsuit Against PFAS Manufacturers for Making, Selling Toxic Chemicals, As Covered by:
- Yahoo!Finance (February 25, 2020)
- WBOC-CBS-16 (February 25, 2020)
- KWTV-CBS-9 (February 25, 2020)
- KAKE-ABC (February 25, 2020)
- Newson6 (February 25, 2020)
- MarketWatch (February 25, 2020)
- Daily Herald (February 25, 2020)
- The Buffalo News (February 25, 2020)
- PRNewsWire (February 25, 2020)
- SeekingAlpha.com (February 25, 2020)
- Finance Minyanville (February 25, 2020)
- Spoke (February 25, 2020)
- Benzinga (February 25, 2020)
Rural Utilities Sue 3M, DuPoint Over PFAS Well Contamination, As Covered by:
As published on www.alcoholismdrugabuseweekly.com:
- Alcohol reinforces both positively and negatively, complicating treatment / October 11, 2019
- Some providers may proceed cautiously on latest legal challenge to insurer / September 27, 2019
- New lawsuit over UBH’s guidelines could yield windfall for providers / September 20, 2019
- Parity subregulatory guidance to clarify NQTLs such as fail‐first / May 18, 2018
UnitedHealth sued voer $5M in mental health claims, Becker’s Hospital Review (September 18, 2019)
Napoli Shkolnik Files Groundbreaking Class Action Lawsuit Against United Behavioral Health on Behalf of Providers, Yahoo!Finance (September 12, 2019)
Treatment centers allege Michigan’s largest health insurer ‘slashed’ reimbursement rates; BCBS says its rates were appropriate, Legal NewsLine (August 5, 2019)
Michigan Centers Sue Blue Cross Over Payment Cuts, Rash of Denials, Behavioral Healthcare Executive (August 5, 2019)
BCBS of Michigan hit with $40M lawsuit over provider payments, Becker’s Hospital Review (August 1, 2019)
Blue Cross Michigan sued for $40 million for alleged unpaid behavioral health claims, Crain’s Detroit Business (July 31, 2019)
Mich. BCBS Stingy On Drug Treatment Payments, Suit says, Law360 (July 31, 2019)
Napoli Shkolnik PLLC Files $40 Million Lawsuit Against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan as covered in