Health Care & Hospital Law
Jan. 6, 2011
Court Slaps Agency Over Autism Regulation
A judge overseeing an consumer lawsuit against state regulators found a 2009 policy allowing health plans to more easily deny coverage for autism therapies was an "underground regulation" but has declined to intervene.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge overseeing an unusual consumer lawsuit against state regulators found that a 2009 policy that has allowed health insurance plans to more easily deny coverage for some costly autism therapies constituted an "underground regulation," but has declined to intervene.
Though Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert H. O'Brien found regulators did not take ...
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