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Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization denials: what the review data shows

Independent reviewers have decided 46 published cases where an insurer denied Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization — and they overturned the insurer 56.5% of the time. A denial for Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization is a starting position, not a final answer.

Published decisions
46
2001–2026
Overturned
56.5%
26 denials reversed

By condition

Published outcomes when Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization was denied for these conditions.
ConditionDecisionsOverturned
Mental Disorder12
50%
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 Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalizationwhen 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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