Health Care & Hospital Law
Aug. 30, 2011
Mental illness must be covered by insurance, panel holds
Patients who seek insurance coverage for mental health services won a major victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday when a three-judge panel ruled that Blue Shield of California must cover a woman’s residential treatment for an eating disorder.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Patients who seek insurance coverage for mental health services won a major victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday when a three-judge panel ruled that Blue Shield of California must cover a woman's residential treatment for an eating disorder.
In what an attorney for plaintiff Jeanene Harlick said may be the first ruling of its kind, the court said eating disorders are one o...
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