11th Circuit Affirms Level Of Care For Anorexia Was No Longer Medically Necessary

(March 12, 2019, 8:34 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 8 affirmed a lower federal court’s finding that the administrator of an Employee Retirement Income Security Act benefits plan properly found that a woman’s "partial hospitalization" at a specialized treatment facility for anorexia was no longer medically necessary and, therefore, was not covered (Alexandra H. v. Oxford Health Insurance, Inc., No. 18-11105, 11th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 6972)....

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