California Plans Deny Mental Health Claims Despite New Law (1)

December 21, 2022, 10:30 AM UTCUpdated: December 22, 2022, 6:32 PM UTC

More than two years after California passed a law to require more comprehensive mental health coverage, health insurance companies still appear to regularly deny claims for medically necessary treatment, a survey of state data shows.

California regulators reversed 65% of contested claims for mental health coverage in the last two years, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of data from the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance. Health plans reversed their own initial decisions for another 10% of those claims.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed the law (S.B. 855), intended to stop health plans ...

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