Eric David Katz

Eric D. Katz is a prominent advocate for New Jersey physicians, dentists and other health care providers, and patients, and is a senior partner at Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC, a leading New Jersey class action and trial law firm. Mr. Katz represents health care providers and their patients in all types of managed care disputes including usual, customay and reasonabl (UCR) disagreements, prompt payment disputes, unlawful bundling and downcoding of claims, improper coverage denials, class actions and managed care audits. In just the last few years, Mr. Katz has recovered several millions of dollars for his physician clients on UCR and prompt pay issues alone. 

 

A leading New Jersey class action lawyer, Mr. Katz has been appointed lead class counsel in many managed care class actions and among his many triumphs achieved a 9-0 victory in the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the availability of class actions in arbitration on behalf of 20,000 New Jersey physicians against Oxford Health Plans, a landmark $39 million class action settlement on behalf of over 20,000 New Jersey physicians against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, the largest health insurer in the state, relating to the carrier’s failure to process claims timely and appropriately, a major class action settlement on behalf of dentists against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, and a national class action settlement on behalf of 160,000 dentists against Delta Dental of New Jersey on similary issues.   Mr. Katz has shaped the law on class actions as a result of major federal and state court victories including the United States Supreme Court, on matters such as the rights of plaintiffs to sue in the forum of their choice and the rights of consumers and other plaintiffs to bring a class action even when compelled into arbitration.   Mr. Katz is a certified civil trial attorney, a distinction held by less than 2% of New Jersey attorneys and is often interviewed by the media as a champion of the rights of health care providers and their patients.