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Direct Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy denials: what the review data shows

Independent reviewers have decided 23 published cases where an insurer denied Direct Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy — and they overturned the insurer 87% of the time. A denial for Direct Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy is a starting position, not a final answer.

Published decisions
23
2001–2026
Overturned
87%
20 denials reversed

By condition

Published outcomes when Direct Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy was denied for these conditions.
ConditionDecisionsOverturned
Autism12
100%
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 Direct Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapywhen 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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