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Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment denials: what the review data shows
Independent reviewers have decided 17 published cases where an insurer denied Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment — and they overturned the insurer 76.5% of the time. A denial for Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment is a starting position, not a final answer.
Published decisions
17
2001–2026
Overturned
76.5%
13 denials reversed
How to use this in your appeal
These are outcomes from California’s external review program — an independent physician panel that binds the insurer. Every state has an equivalent process, and internal appeals succeed even more often. Cite the outcome record for Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Treatmentwhen you appeal: reviewers routinely find that denials like yours didn’t hold up.
SOURCE: CALIFORNIA DMHC INDEPENDENT MEDICAL REVIEW OUTCOMES (CHHS OPEN DATA) · DERIVED AGGREGATE STATISTICS ONLY · METHODOLOGY
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