Alexander et al v. United Behavioral Health
Case Number:
3:14-cv-05337
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Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action
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Firms
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June 11, 2024
Pivotal ERISA Case Stalls Amid Mental Health Crisis
A nationwide mental health crisis has emerged while a landmark case involving thousands of insurance claims denied by United Behavioral Health has wound its way through the courts. The dispute is hitting new headwinds at the Ninth Circuit.
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July 30, 2021
UnitedHealth Rule Rewrite Evinces Shift In Mental Health Care
A UnitedHealth Group unit is almost two years into a court-ordered process of altering how it approaches mental health and substance abuse care, and attorneys say it likely won't be the only insurer facing a reckoning amid a national sea change on support for such treatment.
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December 07, 2020
UnitedHealth Unit Should Reprocess Claims Now, Class Says
United Behavioral Health shouldn't be allowed to table its compliance with a court order to reprocess roughly 67,000 insurance claims while appealing its loss in a challenge to its claim decision-making process, a class of UBH patients told a California federal court.
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December 03, 2020
UnitedHealth Unit Appeals Loss In Treatment Guidelines Case
UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s behavioral health unit appealed its loss in a blockbuster case over coverage guidelines to the Ninth Circuit on Thursday, looking to nix orders that its guidelines were improper and that it must reprocess roughly 67,000 claims for behavioral health treatments administered using the guidelines.
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November 03, 2020
UnitedHealth Ordered To Reprocess 50K Claims In ERISA Suit
A UnitedHealth Group Inc. subsidiary must reprocess insurance claims on behalf of a certified class of more than 50,000 plan holders, a California magistrate judge ordered on Tuesday, after finding it violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment.
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May 06, 2019
UnitedHealth Seeks To Scuttle 50,000-Member ERISA Class
United Behavioral Health has asked a California federal judge to break up the 50,000-member class of patients suing it over mental health and substance abuse treatment coverage guidelines that were found to violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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March 05, 2019
Judge Rips UnitedHealth's Shortsighted Behavioral Care Rules
A UnitedHealth Group unit's internal guidelines for mental health and substance abuse coverage ignored generally accepted standards of care and focused on "crisis stabilization" while leaving patients stranded over the long term, a California federal magistrate judge said Tuesday.
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October 16, 2017
Self-Effacing Judge Asks For Road Map In UnitedHealth Trial
A California federal magistrate judge overseeing claims that UnitedHealth Group improperly denied coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment told class members at the start of their bench trial Monday that he's "just some dumb judge" who would need expert testimony on coverage guidelines to give him "a road map" for their case.
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September 19, 2016
UnitedHealth Plan Holders Win Class Cert. In ERISA Suit
A California federal judge on Monday certified a class of UnitedHealth Group Inc. health plan participants accusing the company of improperly denying mental health and substance abuse treatments in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, saying the claims shared common factors worthy of classwide adjudication.
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April 29, 2016
UnitedHealth Says Class Wouldn't Be Efficient In ERISA Suit
A UnitedHealth Group Inc. unit on Thursday asked a California federal judge not to certify a class of plan holders who say they were improperly denied mental health and substance abuse treatments in violation of ERISA, as each claim would need to be handled on an individual level.