Residential Treatment Denial Overturned On De Novo Review Following Remand

Mealey's (December 21, 2021, 9:07 AM EST) -- SALT LAKE CITY — In a Nov. 30 decision on remand from the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a Utah federal judge granted summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs who challenged a denial of benefits for psychiatric residential treatment, ruling that the health plan administrator abandoned one stated rationale for the denial and its arguments on the other were “unpersuasive.”...

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