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Outpatient Psychotherapy denials: what the review data shows
Independent reviewers have decided 20 published cases where an insurer denied Outpatient Psychotherapy — and they overturned the insurer 30% of the time. A denial for Outpatient Psychotherapy is a starting position, not a final answer.
Published decisions
20
2001–2026
Overturned
30%
6 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 Outpatient Psychotherapywhen 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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