15 states and Washington, DC, challenge limits on behavioral health insurance coverage

Rhode Island's Attorney General Peter Neronha, along with 15 other attorneys general, are renewing an effort to change limits to behavioral health insurance coverage, Providence Business News reported March 20. 

Attorneys general from Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia have joined Mr. Neronha in filing a second amicus brief against United Behavioral Health for denying coverage to tens of thousands of patients, according to the publication. 

Mr. Neronha along with attorneys general from Illinois and Connecticut filed the first brief in May 2022. The court ruled plaintiffs who had been denied coverage did not have the right to reprocess their claims.

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