Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts
This article contains descriptions of mental illness, eating disorders and suicide.
In a New Orleans courtroom one afternoon this April, three federal appeals court judges questioned a lawyer for the country’s largest health insurance company.
They wanted to know why United Healthcare had denied coverage for a 15-year-old girl named Emily Dwyer, whose anorexia had taken such a toll on her body that she had arrived at a residential treatment facility wearing her 8-year-old sister’s jeans.
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