Motivated by its own cost-saving interests, United Behavioral Health regularly denies claims for outpatient treatment of mental health disorders in seriously ill patients in violation of its fiduciary duties under federal law, according to a proposed class action.
Three plaintiffs—the family of a teenager with substance abuse and other problems, a woman beset with bipolar disorder and a man with an array of severe mental illnesses—allege the managed behavioral health care company, flouts its obligations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
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