Christopher Flynn
Overview
Chris Flynn is a partner in Crowell & Moring's Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm's Health Care Group. Chris focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation before federal and state courts, administrative agencies and arbitral forums. Chris regularly represents HMOs, PPOs, IPAs, TPAs, health benefit plans, fiscal intermediaries, managed behavioral healthcare organizations, plan sponsors and health care industry associations in various litigation, investigations, and regulatory matters. Chris' experience includes all areas of health care, including payor/provider contract disputes, class action defense, ERISA preemption, subrogation disputes, regulatory challenges and whistleblower claims. Chris has also briefed health care matters for the Supreme Court as counsel for amicus curiae.
Career & Education
- The George Washington University, B.A.
- Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D.
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Professional Activities and Memberships
- American Bar Association, Health Law and Litigation Sections
- American Health Lawyers Association
Chris's Insights
Firm News | 11 min read | 06.05.25
Crowell Attains Leading Rankings in Chambers USA 2025
Washington – June 5, 2025: Crowell & Moring earned 80 rankings for 71 lawyers, as well as 43 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2025 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.16.25
Trump Administration Pauses Enforcement of the MHPAEA Final Rule
Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.23.25
Tri-Agencies Release Third Mental Health Parity Report to Congress
Publication | 12.23.24
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
Representative Matters
- Successfully represented payor in $250 million nationwide dispute with hospital system regarding coding practices.
- Represents coalition of health care entities challenging enforcement of Federal Mental Health Parity Regulations for failure to engage in notice and comment rulemaking.
- Secured dismissal of $30 million lost profits claim against a managed care organization by a hospital system based on the alleged refusal to permit the system to participate in a provider network.
- Successfully secured $18 million arbitration award on behalf of a Medicare Advantage plan against a multi-specialty provider group that solicited plan members to a competing plan.
- Represent plan in a putative national class action regarding balance billing by emergency room physicians.
- Represented managed behavioral healthcare organization in several putative class actions involving impact of state parity laws on claims for eating disorder coverage.
- Participated in trial team that secured directed verdict on behalf of health plan against four regional health systems challenging out-of-network reimbursement.
- Represent health plan in a putative class action regarding appropriateness of co-pays for outpatient emergency services.
- Represented Florida health plan in a dispute with a hospital system regarding the manner in which non-participating providers are compensated under Florida law.
- Represented managed care organization in a dispute with a state employees health benefits program regarding appropriateness of premium payments.
- Secured dismissal of $300 million putative class action against managed care support contractor in the CHAMPUS/Tricare program based on alleged underpayment of outpatient hospital claims. Ruling affirmed on appeal by the Third Circuit.
- Represented employee assistance program in Federal District court and before the Second Circuit in duty to warn case in which the District Court granted summary judgment and the Second Circuit affirmed.
- Represented health plan in putative class action in which a consumer class alleged violation of ERISA in the denial of residential treatment claims.
- Represented staff model HMO in a consumer class action relating to subrogation practices that allegedly violated state law.
- Tried case on behalf of HMO to defense verdict in a state law action brought by a DME provider challenging non-participating provider reimbursement rates.
- Successfully represented staff model HMO in matter in which the trial court vacated a TRO prohibiting the plan from terminating an allegedly "bona fide" employer group.
- Successfully represented licensor of genomic data at trial in a license dispute with a pharmaceutical company regarding most favored nation pricing.
- Represent national Medicare Advantage plan in a dispute with an ESI vendor relating to transmission of claims data.
- Successfully challenged state insurance commissioner's interpretation of health plans' ability to collect last month premiums in the individual market.
Chris's Insights
Firm News | 11 min read | 06.05.25
Crowell Attains Leading Rankings in Chambers USA 2025
Washington – June 5, 2025: Crowell & Moring earned 80 rankings for 71 lawyers, as well as 43 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2025 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.16.25
Trump Administration Pauses Enforcement of the MHPAEA Final Rule
Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.23.25
Tri-Agencies Release Third Mental Health Parity Report to Congress
Publication | 12.23.24
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
Recognition
- Chambers USA: Health Care, District of Columbia, 2018-2025
- The Best Lawyers in America: Health Care
- Super Lawyers: Top-Rated, Health Care, 2014-2023
- Thomson Reuters: Stand-out Lawyers, 2023
Chris's Insights
Firm News | 11 min read | 06.05.25
Crowell Attains Leading Rankings in Chambers USA 2025
Washington – June 5, 2025: Crowell & Moring earned 80 rankings for 71 lawyers, as well as 43 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2025 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.16.25
Trump Administration Pauses Enforcement of the MHPAEA Final Rule
Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.23.25
Tri-Agencies Release Third Mental Health Parity Report to Congress
Publication | 12.23.24
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
Insights
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
|12.23.24
Employee Benefit Plan Review
Health Care – Will Health Care Be Healthier in 2020?
|02.26.20
Crowell & Moring's Regulatory Forecast 2020
Litigation Forecast 2014: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year
|01.31.14
a Crowell & Moring LLP publication
The False Claims Act Correction Act: Key Provisions and Implications
|01.30.09
Payors, Plans & Managed Care, AHLA, Vol. 12, Issue 1
"Preparing for a Surge in Health Plan Fee Litigation," 15th Annual Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation, Chicago, IL
|05.02.24
Thomson Reuters Names 16 Crowell Lawyers as “Stand-out Lawyers”
|03.07.23
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03.09.20
Crowell & Moring's Health Law Blog
Tennessee Proposes First of Its Kind Block Grant Program for Medicaid
|09.24.19
Crowell & Moring's Health Law Blog
Chris's Insights
Firm News | 11 min read | 06.05.25
Crowell Attains Leading Rankings in Chambers USA 2025
Washington – June 5, 2025: Crowell & Moring earned 80 rankings for 71 lawyers, as well as 43 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2025 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.16.25
Trump Administration Pauses Enforcement of the MHPAEA Final Rule
Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.23.25
Tri-Agencies Release Third Mental Health Parity Report to Congress
Publication | 12.23.24
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
