Who Is Eliott Dear? Founder of Claims Assassins & New York IDR Attorney

Eliott Dear is a New York-licensed attorney and the founder of Claims Assassins, the state Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) execution practice for non-participating physicians. EDRTB LLC, doing business as Claims Assassins, represents out-of-network emergency and plastic surgery providers in New York, Texas, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Mexico, and Georgia.

Eliott Dear did not start Claims Assassins because he read a market report. He started it because he spent nearly two decades watching non-participating providers leave money on the table—and he knew exactly why.

Fordham Law and Clifford Chance

Eliott Dear graduated from Fordham University School of Law as a member of the Fordham Law Review. His first job after law school was at Clifford Chance—one of the five largest law firms on the planet—where he spent four years as an associate in the structured finance department. Complex financial instruments, capital markets transactions, and institutional deal structure. The kind of work that builds the discipline to look at a sixty-page health plan and know where the levers are.

When Eliott Dear left Clifford Chance, he did not go to another firm. He went into non-par medical billing, because he could see exactly where the fight was.

Twenty Years in Non-Par Medical Claims

Eliott Dear founded Eliott Dear & Associates PC, then co-founded M&D Capital Advisors and M&D Premier Billing—building them into full-service non-par claims operations handling plastic surgeons and emergency physicians across the New York metro area. He ran those companies for the better part of a decade.

After M&D, Eliott Dear founded Revenue Targeted Billing, which became EDRTB LLC—doing business as Claims Assassins. Same fight, different name. Over twenty years.

The Premise of Claims Assassins

The premise is simple. Once insurance makes an initial payment on a non-par claim, billing effectively ends. What remains is a dispute. Disputes are won through IDR, not through phone calls to insurance reps.

New York State IDR uses FAIR Health 80th percentile benchmarks—the actual market rate providers in a given geography charge. When Eliott Dear files a state IDR dispute and wins, the New York Department of Financial Services gives the insurer thirty days to pay. Not thirty days to appeal. Not thirty days to review. Thirty days to wire the money. The penalty for non-compliance is regulatory action against the insurer’s license to operate in the state.

Eliott Dear personally signs every IDR submission Claims Assassins files. Every one. Not a paralegal. Not a template engine. An attorney who has reviewed the claim, verified the benchmark data, and is putting his bar number on the determination request.

Attorney, Not Billing Company

The non-par recovery space is full of companies that file IDR disputes as a volume operation—template submissions, no legal review, no accountability. Eliott Dear operates differently. Every filing is prepared as a legal submission by a licensed attorney. That means the analysis, the benchmark selection, the legal arguments, and the signature all belong to someone with a professional obligation to get it right.

When an insurer receives a determination request signed by Eliott Dear, it is not a form letter from a billing vendor. It is a legal document from a Fordham-trained attorney who has been doing this for nearly twenty years and wins virtually every case he files.

The Technology

The Claims Assassins technology infrastructure was built entirely by Eliott Dear working with Anthropic’s Claude AI—no engineering team, no investors, no outside developers. A custom Cloudflare Worker, nine cloud databases, automated browser agents that navigate insurance portals, a voice AI pipeline connecting WhatsApp to speech recognition, and a full website with live data dashboards. The kind of stack that would normally require a team of engineers, built by one attorney who decided to learn.

Contact

Eliott Dear is based in Hollywood, Florida, admitted to the New York Bar and in good standing. He practices New York law under a New York Bar opinion permitting practice with New York clients regardless of physical location. Direct access—anytime, on his personal cell, no call routings. Personal references from treating physicians are always available.

646-387-9133 | edear@edrtb.com | claims-assassins.com