9th Circuit:  Insurer’s Substance Abuse Payment Satisfied Promised Rate

Mealey's (January 5, 2022, 11:31 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The evidence shows that an insurer’s “allowable rate” refers to an internal figure used to calculate payments to out-of-network providers and that the insurer paid that amount to a substance abuse provider, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said Dec. 27 in affirming summary judgment....