United Behavioral Can’t Ax Class in Mental Health Coverage Suit

United Behavioral Health lost its bid to decertify a class of patients challenging its coverage of residential mental health treatments, but a federal judge modified the class definition to cover fewer people.

The narrowed class will exclude patients whose coverage requests were denied for reasons unrelated to the coverage guidelines challenged by the lawsuit, along with those who never incurred expenses for the treatments in question, Judge Richard Seeborg said Monday for the US District Court for the Northern District of California. This modified class definition satisfies the standard set by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...