9th Circuit Affirms Denial In Out-Of-Network Residential Treatment Case

Mealey's (December 23, 2020, 1:48 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The evidence shows that an insurer in fact covers residential treatments for eating disorders and that it was an insured’s own insistence on private, out-of-network care that led to denial of his claim, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said Dec. 22 (I.M., et al. v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., No. 19-16374, 9th Cir.)....