Judge: Insurer Properly Denied Coverage For Residential Mental Health Treatments

(December 13, 2018, 2:59 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A health insurer did not abuse its discretion in concluding that a California minor’s involuntary residential psychiatric treatment in Utah was not performed on an emergency basis or that her mother failed to properly investigate the potential for in-area, in-network care before the admission, a federal judge in California held Dec. 11 (Carol Meyers v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., No. 17-04946, N.D. Calif.)....

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