A family suing United Behavioral Health over its failure to fully cover their daughter’s two-year stay at a residential mental health facility lost their lawsuit when a Utah federal judge ruled these treatments weren’t medically necessary to address acute concerns.

The United plan covers residential mental health treatments when necessary to address acute changes that can’t be effectively addressed through outpatient care, Judge Howard C. Nielson Jr.of the US District Court for the District of Utah said Aug. 19. The treatments the patient—referred to as E. W.-M.—received at Unita Academy were more akin to a “long-term structured environment” for ...

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