Litigation Attorneys
Health Plan Administration Built for Mass Tort and Class Action Settlements
When a mass tort, class action or MDL settlement includes long-term health benefits for claimants, the administrative work continues for years after the case closes. BHPS provides the compliant, multi-decade TPA infrastructure to deliver on that obligation.
Why BHPS
A Different Category of Settlement Administrator
General settlement administration firms close out settlements. Running an ongoing health benefits program is a different discipline — one that requires a dedicated third party administrator with the clinical and operational depth to deliver care for the full life of the settlement. With over 35 years of health plan administration experience, BHPS brings the claims accuracy, clinical oversight and member services infrastructure these programs require.
Mass tort settlements involving long-term medical injury produce health benefits programs that run 20, 30, or more years. BHPS is structured for that long-tail capacity: continuous eligibility management, sustained claims adjudication and ongoing member support for populations whose diagnoses may continue to emerge long after the settlement is paid.
BHPS has an in-house Chief Medical Officer and clinical team providing utilization management, case management, and disease management for high-cost conditions. For settlement populations with cancers, neurological conditions, respiratory illnesses, or other serious conditions arising from the events underlying the litigation, clinical oversight is not a back-office function. It is central to delivering the benefits the settlement promised.
BHPS administers every plan with 99% financial accuracy and with rigorous documentation practices across HIPAA, ERISA, and ACA requirements. When the administration of health benefits is part of a legal obligation, there is no room for error and no acceptable excuse for gaps in the record.
Core Services
Everything a Settlement Health Plan Needs.
All in One Place.
From initial eligibility setup to ongoing claims administration and compliance reporting, BHPS provides the complete TPA infrastructure attorneys, defendants and settlement administrators need to deliver on health benefit obligations to claimant populations.
We establish and manage eligibility based on the terms of the settlement, handling initial enrollment, ongoing status changes and eligibility tracking throughout the life of the benefit program. For mass tort programs where the claimant population continues to expand as new diagnoses emerge, we maintain the operational infrastructure to onboard new claimants at any point in the program.
Our adjudication process configures the benefit structure to the settlement terms and applies those parameters consistently across every claim. Clinical checks and payment integrity oversight ensure claims are paid correctly and in full compliance with the established plan design.
Our in-house clinical team, led by a Chief Medical Officer, provides utilization management, case management and disease management for high-cost conditions — a meaningful operational advantage for claimant populations with serious or chronic health conditions tied to the events underlying the litigation.
Settlement classes are defined by shared harm, not shared geography. Claimants are spread across all 50 states and in some cases internationally. We support national network configurations, out-of-network arrangements and specialist access for rare conditions — the network flexibility a dispersed claimant population requires.
Our concierge member services team provides high-touch support for claimant members including benefit navigation, provider access, and claims assistance. Members can reach us by phone, portal, or app with a 31-second average answer time, and specialists are trained on the specific plan so every interaction is accurate and helpful.
BHPS manages HIPAA compliance, ERISA requirements and other applicable regulatory obligations throughout the administration of the benefit program. Our documentation practices are built to meet the accountability standards that court-supervised or settlement-established programs require.
Through our Create® platform, BHPS provides comprehensive reporting on all plan activity including claims history, eligibility records and payment data. That documentation supports ongoing oversight by legal teams, trustees and courts, and provides the audit trail necessary for settlement compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common Questions From Litigation Attorneys
BHPS is built for mass tort, class action and MDL settlements where claimants are entitled to long-term health benefits — medical monitoring programs, condition-specific treatment coverage or ongoing specialty care. These are often cases involving chronic or delayed-onset injury such as cancers, neurological conditions or respiratory illness linked to an exposure event. The common thread is that claimants need real, ongoing clinical care, not a one-time payout.
General settlement administration firms handle fund disbursement, lien resolution and legal noticing. Ongoing health benefits administration is a different discipline that requires a dedicated TPA with deep health plan expertise. BHPS brings 35 years of health plan administration experience, 99% claims accuracy, in-house clinical oversight and a full concierge member services operation — capabilities that general settlement firms typically do not have in-house.
For the full life of the program. Many mass tort settlements involving long-term medical injury produce benefits obligations that run 30 or more years, particularly where claimant diagnoses continue to emerge over time. BHPS is structured to deliver multi-decade administration: continuous eligibility management, sustained claims operations and ongoing clinical and member support across the full duration of the program.
Earlier is better. Many settlement terms turn on operational questions that are difficult to unwind after the fact — how eligibility will be verified, what documentation claimants will need to produce, which conditions and treatments fall within scope, how long the program will run and how disputes will be resolved. BHPS is typically engaged in one of three moments: during settlement structuring, to inform the health benefits provision before it is finalized; at settlement finalization, to stand up the administration as the program goes live; or after the program has been running, to replace an incumbent administrator that cannot scale into the long term. All three paths are supported, but engagements that begin during settlement structuring produce the cleanest programs.
BHPS does not advocate for either party in the underlying litigation. Our obligation runs to the settlement terms and to the claimant population entitled to benefits under them. Engagements come through plaintiffs' counsel, defendants and their counsel, trustees, court-appointed administrators or a combination of these. That neutrality matters — a health benefits administrator perceived as aligned with one side creates risk to the settlement's legitimacy for every party involved.
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Whether you are structuring a settlement on behalf of plaintiffs, advising a defendant on mass-exposure claims or evaluating administrator options for a settlement health program, BHPS provides the multi-decade health benefits administration that mass tort and class action programs require.
