Parity Act Claim In Wilderness Therapy Case Survives Dismissal

(April 2, 2020, 2:07 PM EDT) -- SALT LAKE CITY — A family adequately alleges that a health insurance plan’s blanket exclusion on wilderness treatments sufficiently deviates from how it covers similar treatments in the medical or surgical setting to keep the claim alive, and there is no reason at this stage to believe that the Parity Act claim is duplicative of the claim seeking benefits, a federal judge in Utah said March 26 (Candace B., et al. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island, No. 19-39, D. Utah, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52850)....

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