Month: March 2022

United Behavioral Health beats landmark coverage class-action

United Behavioral Health beats landmark coverage class-action

March 23, 2022

NONA TEPPER 

A federal appeals court on Tuesday reversed a landmark decision that required the nation’s largest behavioral health insurer to adopt more stringent standards for mental health and substance abuse treatment and reprocess tens of thousands of claims.

Critical-access hospitals left out of Congress’ telehealth extension

Critical-access hospitals left out of Congress’ telehealth extension

March 10, 2022 

JESSIE HELLMANN

Critical-access hospitals warn that they will no longer be able to bill Medicare for telehealth services when the public health emergency ends after they were excluded from the government spending bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passed Wednesday.