( September 3, 2024, 10:38 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has denied a petition for panel or en banc rehearing in a putative class suit over the practice known as “cross-plan offsetting”; in seeking rehearing, health plan participants argued that the ruling upholding dismissal ignored their “plausible allegations that the plans’ offset-authorizing terms are unenforceable and this Court’s prior decision in [Peterson v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc. (Peterson II)] holding that both patients and their doctors are obviously injured when they receive cross plan offsets instead of cash.”...