UnitedHealthcare Told to Pay Mental Health Residential Benefits

United Healthcare Insurance Co. and United Behavioral Health must pay benefits, attorneys’ fees, and interest to a beneficiary after repeatedly denying claims for her son’s mental health treatment at a residential facility in Utah, a federal judge said.

The insurance entities arbitrarily and capriciously refused to pay the claims following a remand from a ruling that it hadn’t properly considered them in the first instance, Judge Jill N. Parish of the US District Court for the District of Utah said March 27. The second refusal also was insufficient, as it consisted of conclusory statements without any reasoning or citations to ...