Acute-Care Standard Claims Keep Parity Act Case Alive, Judge Says

Mealey's (March 9, 2021, 2:14 PM EST) -- SALT LAKE CITY — Allegations that an insurer applied acute-level care guidelines to a child’s sub-acute mental health care and that it would not impose the same standard in the medical or surgical setting satisfy the Parity Act, a federal judge in Utah said March 5 in denying a motion to dismiss....