AMENDED1 ORDER
Amy Totenberg, United States District Judge
This matter is before the Court on Defendant FOCUS Brands, Inc.’s (“FB”) Motion to Dismiss [Doc. 6]. For the following reasons, the Motion is GRANTED.
[1267]*1267I. BACKGROUND FACTS
At this stage, the facts alleged in the Complaint are accepted as true. Plaintiff Griffin operates a solo dermatology practice called Intown Dermatology. (ComplJ 3.) As a condition of service, Plaintiff requires her patients to assign their health insurance benefits to her. (Id.)
In March of 2013, Plaintiff performed two surgical procedures on patient SD, whose insurance coverage is at issue in this litigation. SD is a beneficiary of an FB-sponsored group health benefit plan (the “Plan”) governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. eh. 18. (Id. ¶2, 14). Plaintiff was not paid what she believes she is owed for services rendered to SD.
Plaintiffs Complaint contains four counts against FB, all of which are styled as ERISA violations. Count One alleges failui’e to pay the correct amount of benefits. Count Two alleges a breach of fiduciary duty by continuing to delegate claims administration duties to FB’s claims administrator, Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia (“BCBSHP Georgia”), even when FB knew or should have known that BCBSHP Georgia was performing inadequately. Count Three alleges failure to provide plan documents upon request, and Count Four claims FB breached its “contractual obligations to the Plaintiff as recognized by ERISA.”
II. LEGAL STANDARD
This Court may dismiss a pleading for “failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). A pleading fails to state a claim if it does not contain allegations that support recovery under any recognizable legal theory. 5 Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice & Procedure § 1216 (3d ed.2002); see also Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 666 U.S. 662, 677-78, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009). In considering a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, the Court construes the pleading in the non-movant’s favor and accepts the allegations of facts therein as true. See Duke v. Cleland, 5 F.3d 1399, 1402 (11th Cir.1993). Plaintiff need not provide “detailed factual allegations” to survive dismissal, but the “obligation to provide the ‘grounds’ of his ‘entitle[ment] to relief requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do.” Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 655, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007). In essence, the pleading “must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to ‘state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.’ ” Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678, 129 S.Ct. 1937 (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570, 127 S.Ct. 1955).
III.DISCUSSION
Defendant FB moves to dismiss all ERISA-based violations under Rule 12(b)(6). FB argues that Plaintiff lacks standing to bring any ERISA-based claim against it because the Plan at issue contains an unambiguous anti-assignment clause. Plaintiff responds that the assignment that grants her standing to bring her ERISA claims should be permitted because Georgia insurance law allows for such assignments.
[1268]*1268A. Coünt 1: Unpaid Benefits Under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B)-
The Eleventh Circuit has long since resolved any question about the effectiveness of an anti-assignment clause as it pertains to an ERISA claim for unpaid benefits. Physicians Multispecialty Grp. v. Health Care Plan of Horton Homes, Inc., 371 F.3d 1291, 1294-1296 (11th Cir.2004). In Physicians Multispecialty Group, a healthcare provider obtained an assignment of benefits from the estate of a deceased participant in an ERISA-governed plan. Id. at 1293. When the plan did not pay as much as the provider believed it was owed for services rendered to the deceased, the provider sued for unpaid benefits under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B)— the same provision under which Plaintiff Griffin brings Count 1 of her Complaint. The assignment issue was not fully briefed or decided by the district court, and summary judgment was granted in favor of the provider. Id.
The Court of Appeals reversed. After the issue was fully briefed, the Eleventh Circuit held that an ERISA-governed healthcare plan may prohibit the assignment of benefits to a third-party, including to a healthcare provider. Specifically, the court stated:
Under ERISA § 502(a)(1)(B), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B), two categories of persons exist who can sue for benefits under an ERISA-governed plan: plan beneficiaries and plan participants. Healthcare providers ... are generally not “participants” or “beneficiaries” un~ der ERISA and thus lack independent standing to sue under ERISA. Healthcare providers may acquire derivative standing, however, by obtaining a written assignment from a “beneficiary” or “participant” of his right to payment of benefits under an ERISA-governed plan.
[But because] ERISA-govemed plans are contracts, the parties are free to bargain for certain provisions in the plan — like assignability. Thus, an unambiguous anti-assignment provision in an ERISA-governed welfare benefit plan is valid and enforceable.
Id. at 1294-1296 (citations omitted).
The anti-assignment clause considered in Physicians Multispecidlty Group was found to be unambiguous. It read:
Except as applicable law- may otherwise require, no amount payable at any time hereunder shall be subject in any manner to alienation by ... assignment ... of any kind[ ]. Any attempt to ... assign ... any such amount, whether presently or hereafter , payable, shall be void_
Id. at 1295. As the clause was unambiguous, it precluded the healthcare provider’s “maintenance of an ERISA action.” Id. at 1296. See also Ward v. Ret. Bd. of Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Ret. Plan, 643 F.3d 1331, 1333-34 (11th Cir.2011) (holding same and citing Physicians Multispecialty Group).
The anti-assignment clause at issue here2 is similarly unambiguous. It reads, in pertinent part:
[1269]*1269Benefits available under this [Plan] are not assignable by any Member without obtaining written permission from us.
(Doc. 6-1 at 31.) The provision’s terms are clear, and no permission to assign was granted.3 Under
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AMENDED1 ORDER
Amy Totenberg, United States District Judge
This matter is before the Court on Defendant FOCUS Brands, Inc.’s (“FB”) Motion to Dismiss [Doc. 6]. For the following reasons, the Motion is GRANTED.
[1267]*1267I. BACKGROUND FACTS
At this stage, the facts alleged in the Complaint are accepted as true. Plaintiff Griffin operates a solo dermatology practice called Intown Dermatology. (ComplJ 3.) As a condition of service, Plaintiff requires her patients to assign their health insurance benefits to her. (Id.)
In March of 2013, Plaintiff performed two surgical procedures on patient SD, whose insurance coverage is at issue in this litigation. SD is a beneficiary of an FB-sponsored group health benefit plan (the “Plan”) governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. eh. 18. (Id. ¶2, 14). Plaintiff was not paid what she believes she is owed for services rendered to SD.
Plaintiffs Complaint contains four counts against FB, all of which are styled as ERISA violations. Count One alleges failui’e to pay the correct amount of benefits. Count Two alleges a breach of fiduciary duty by continuing to delegate claims administration duties to FB’s claims administrator, Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia (“BCBSHP Georgia”), even when FB knew or should have known that BCBSHP Georgia was performing inadequately. Count Three alleges failure to provide plan documents upon request, and Count Four claims FB breached its “contractual obligations to the Plaintiff as recognized by ERISA.”
II. LEGAL STANDARD
This Court may dismiss a pleading for “failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). A pleading fails to state a claim if it does not contain allegations that support recovery under any recognizable legal theory. 5 Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice & Procedure § 1216 (3d ed.2002); see also Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 666 U.S. 662, 677-78, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009). In considering a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, the Court construes the pleading in the non-movant’s favor and accepts the allegations of facts therein as true. See Duke v. Cleland, 5 F.3d 1399, 1402 (11th Cir.1993). Plaintiff need not provide “detailed factual allegations” to survive dismissal, but the “obligation to provide the ‘grounds’ of his ‘entitle[ment] to relief requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do.” Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 655, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007). In essence, the pleading “must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to ‘state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.’ ” Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678, 129 S.Ct. 1937 (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570, 127 S.Ct. 1955).
III.DISCUSSION
Defendant FB moves to dismiss all ERISA-based violations under Rule 12(b)(6). FB argues that Plaintiff lacks standing to bring any ERISA-based claim against it because the Plan at issue contains an unambiguous anti-assignment clause. Plaintiff responds that the assignment that grants her standing to bring her ERISA claims should be permitted because Georgia insurance law allows for such assignments.
[1268]*1268A. Coünt 1: Unpaid Benefits Under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B)-
The Eleventh Circuit has long since resolved any question about the effectiveness of an anti-assignment clause as it pertains to an ERISA claim for unpaid benefits. Physicians Multispecialty Grp. v. Health Care Plan of Horton Homes, Inc., 371 F.3d 1291, 1294-1296 (11th Cir.2004). In Physicians Multispecialty Group, a healthcare provider obtained an assignment of benefits from the estate of a deceased participant in an ERISA-governed plan. Id. at 1293. When the plan did not pay as much as the provider believed it was owed for services rendered to the deceased, the provider sued for unpaid benefits under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B)— the same provision under which Plaintiff Griffin brings Count 1 of her Complaint. The assignment issue was not fully briefed or decided by the district court, and summary judgment was granted in favor of the provider. Id.
The Court of Appeals reversed. After the issue was fully briefed, the Eleventh Circuit held that an ERISA-governed healthcare plan may prohibit the assignment of benefits to a third-party, including to a healthcare provider. Specifically, the court stated:
Under ERISA § 502(a)(1)(B), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B), two categories of persons exist who can sue for benefits under an ERISA-governed plan: plan beneficiaries and plan participants. Healthcare providers ... are generally not “participants” or “beneficiaries” un~ der ERISA and thus lack independent standing to sue under ERISA. Healthcare providers may acquire derivative standing, however, by obtaining a written assignment from a “beneficiary” or “participant” of his right to payment of benefits under an ERISA-governed plan.
[But because] ERISA-govemed plans are contracts, the parties are free to bargain for certain provisions in the plan — like assignability. Thus, an unambiguous anti-assignment provision in an ERISA-governed welfare benefit plan is valid and enforceable.
Id. at 1294-1296 (citations omitted).
The anti-assignment clause considered in Physicians Multispecidlty Group was found to be unambiguous. It read:
Except as applicable law- may otherwise require, no amount payable at any time hereunder shall be subject in any manner to alienation by ... assignment ... of any kind[ ]. Any attempt to ... assign ... any such amount, whether presently or hereafter , payable, shall be void_
Id. at 1295. As the clause was unambiguous, it precluded the healthcare provider’s “maintenance of an ERISA action.” Id. at 1296. See also Ward v. Ret. Bd. of Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Ret. Plan, 643 F.3d 1331, 1333-34 (11th Cir.2011) (holding same and citing Physicians Multispecialty Group).
The anti-assignment clause at issue here2 is similarly unambiguous. It reads, in pertinent part:
[1269]*1269Benefits available under this [Plan] are not assignable by any Member without obtaining written permission from us.
(Doc. 6-1 at 31.) The provision’s terms are clear, and no permission to assign was granted.3 Under Physicians Multispecialty - Group, this unambiguous anti-assignment clause is valid and enforceable.
The “assignment of benefits” that Plaintiff received from SD states as follows:
I ... hereby assign and convey directly to [W.A. Griffin, M.D./Intown Dermatology], as my designated Authorized Representative(s), all medical benefits and/or insurance reimbursement.
(Doc. 8-1 at 1.) The assignment conveys only “medical benefits and/or insurance reimbursement.” But that is exactly what is prohibited by the anti-assignment clause. Under Physicians Multispecialty Group, the anti-assignment clause precludes Plaintiff’s “maintenance of an ERISA action” based on this impermissible assignment. Physicians Multispecialty Group, 371 F.3d at 1296.
Plaintiff responds that Georgia law, and specifically O.C.G.A. § 33-24-54, requires the recognition of assignments of benefits in insurance contracts. Even if O.C.G.A. § 33-24-54 could be read to mandate the recognition of assignments, Physicians Multispecialty Group implicitly recognized ERISA preemption of any such, state law. Physicians Multispecialty Group, 371 F.3d. at 1295 (“Considering this issue, we are persuaded by the reasoning of the majority of federal courts that have concluded that an assignment is ineffectual if the plan contains an unambiguous anti-assignment provision.”) (citing St. Francis Reg’l Med. Ctr. v. Blue. Cross & Blue Shield of Kan., Inc., 49 F.3d 1460, 1464-65 (10th Cir.1995) (“We conclude that ERISA preempts state law on the issue of the assignability of benefits because material provisions in the employee benefits plans covered by ERISA would be directly affected if Kansas law were to be interpreted as prohibiting restrictions on assignment.”); Davidowitz v. Delta Dental Plan of California, Inc., 946 F.2d 1476, 1480-81 (9th Cir.1991) (holding Congressional intent “to allow the free marketplace to work out such competitive, cost effective, medical expense reducing structures as might evolve” militated against requiring ERISA plans- to recognize assignments); Neurological Res., P.C. v. Anthem Ins. Companies, 61 F.Supp.2d 840, 845-46 (S.D.Ind.1999) (granting summary judgment for defendant insurance companies on ERISA claims based on plans containing . anti-assignment clauses because “ ‘ERISA instructs courts to enforce strictly the terms of plans, see 29 U.S.C. § 1104(a)(1)(D). and Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Gerber Truck Service, Inc., 870 F.2d 1148 (7th Cir.1989) (en banc), [and therefore] an assignee cannot collect unless he establishes that, the assignment comports with the plan.’ Kennedy v. Connecticut General Life Ins. Co., 924 F.2d 698, 700 (7th Cir.1991).”)); But see Louisiana Health Serv. & Indem. Co. v. Rapides Healthcare Sys., 461 F.3d 529, 540 (5th Cir.2006) (taking a contrary view of the congressional silence .on assignment of [1270]*1270benefits in ERISA and stating, “congressional silence points in both directions: either leaving assignment of employee welfare benefits to the parties or leaving room for state regulation, should a state desire to intervene.”)- Accordingly, Count 1 is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE for lack of standing.
B. Counts 2, 3, and 4
Counts 2, 3, and 4 also must be dismissed. The most obvious reason is that Plaintiffs only justification for her assertion of standing as to these counts— namely, the assignment — has been invalidated. Plaintiff has not offered and the Court cannot imagine any basis for standing other than the now invalid assignment.
Second, even if the assignment were valid, the plain language of the assignment only assigns to Plaintiff the right to receive “benefits.” In the Eleventh Circuit, “ [assignment agreements are generally interpreted narrowly.” Sanctuary Surgical Ctr., Inc. v. Aetna Inc., 546 Fed.Appx. 846, 851 (11th Cir.2013) cert. denied sub nom. Sanctuary Surgical Ctr., Inc. v. Aetna Health, Inc., — U.S. —, 134 S.Ct. 1557, 188 L.Ed.2d 559 (2014). And under a narrow reading, the assignment of mere “benefits” under the Plan would not provide Plaintiff with the right to bring claims for breach of fiduciary duty against the Plan — or any other claim for civil penalties under ERISA. Put another way, “[Plaintiffs] contention stretches beyond its breaking point the plain meaning of the agreement, which assigns only the right to receive benefits and not the right to assert claims for breach of fiduciary duty or civil penalties. Because the agreements do not support [Plaintiffs] position, [she] lack[s] standing to bring claims under § 502(a)(3) and § 502(c),” as codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1132(a)(3) and 1132(c). Id. at 852. As a result, Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED as to Counts 2, 3, and 4 as well.4,5 Like Count 1, these counts are DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE for lack of standing.6
Practically speaking, does Plaintiff have any hope of being paid what she is owed for her services? The answer is yes. “If provider-assignees cannot sue the ERISA plan for payment, they will bill the participant or beneficiary directly for the insured medical bills, and the participant or beneficiary will be required to bring suit against the benefit plan when claims go unpaid.” Cagle v. Bruner, 112 F.3d 1510, 1515 (11th Cir.1997). Plaintiff herself knew of the more traditional “bill your patients” avenue and even required SD to represent that he or she knew of this avenue, too. [1271]*1271On Plaintiffs “Legal Assignment of Benefits” document, SD ticked boxes next to the following two statements:
• I' understand that I am financially responsible for all charges whether or not paid by insurance.
• I understand and agree that I am responsible for full payment of the medical debt if my insurance company has refused to pay 100% of my benefits based on billed charges, within ninety (90) days of any and all appeals or request [sic ] for information.
(Doc. 8-1 at 1.) Nothing in this Order prevents Plaintiff from recovering from her patient SD, the recipient of her surgical interventions.
IV. CONCLUSION
All of the claims in the Complaint are ERISA claims. As Defendant’s Plan contains an unambiguous anti-assignment clause, Plaintiff lacks standing to bring any of them. Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss all claims in the Complaint [Doc. 6] is therefore GRANTED, and Plaintiffs motion for leave to amend the Complaint to add an additional ERISA claim [Doc. 14] is DENIED. All claims are DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE for lack of standing. The Clerk is DIRECTED to close the case.
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(a), the judgment of May 8, 2015 [Doc. 18] shall be CORRECTED to state that the judgment is based upon the instant order.
IT IS SO ORDERED this 12th day of May, 2015.