April 15, 2025
United Behavioral Health can't unwind class certification in a lawsuit claiming it unlawfully imposed overly restrictive guidelines for coverage of residential mental health treatments, a California federal judge ruled, saying the group's parameters could be adjusted to meet a recent Ninth Circuit standard.
March 25, 2025
Patients challenging United Behavioral Health coverage guidelines for mental health treatment filed their first brief in the case since the Ninth Circuit clarified the scope of the remanded proceedings.
March 24, 2025
Employee health benefit plan participants who sought coverage for mental health and substance use disorder treatments from United Behavioral Health urged a California federal court to rule that the company violated federal benefits law by implementing overly restrictive guidelines, arguing the insurer's interest in narrowing coverage wrongly limited patients' access.
June 11, 2024
A nationwide mental health crisis has emerged while a landmark case involving thousands of insurance claims denied by United Behavioral Health has wound its way through the courts. The dispute is hitting new headwinds at the Ninth Circuit.
May 28, 2024
Nursing home trade groups sue over "nightmare" staffing rule, former Mayo Clinic workers get another shot at claims they were illegally fired over COVID-19 policy breaches, and an unsworn expert letter tanks a medical malpractice suit in Iowa. Â鶹´«Ã½360 Healthcare Authority looks at those and other notable developments in healthcare litigation over the past week.
May 23, 2024
United Behavioral Health implored the Ninth Circuit to grant the insurance company's petition for appellate court intervention in a consolidated action alleging mismanagement of mental health and substance use disorder treatment claims, arguing a California federal court clearly erred by allowing further pleadings on a denial of benefits claim.
May 20, 2024
Patients alleging United Behavioral Health mismanaged their mental health and substance use disorder treatment claims urged the Ninth Circuit not to grant the insurance company's petition for appellate court intervention in the consolidated action, arguing the effort was inappropriate and unjustified.
January 06, 2022
A California federal judge awarded class counsel more than $20 million in fees and costs Wednesday for a victory against a UnitedHealth Group unit that the court ordered to rewrite its rules on substance abuse and mental health care coverage.
July 30, 2021
A UnitedHealth Group unit is almost two years into a court-ordered process of altering how it approaches mental health and substance abuse care, and attorneys say it likely won't be the only insurer facing a reckoning amid a national sea change on support for such treatment.
January 27, 2021
A UnitedHealth Group Inc. unit can't avoid a court order to reprocess roughly 67,000 claims for behavioral health treatment initially evaluated using guidelines that a judge shot down in 2019, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday.