"Wit v. United Behavioral Health exposed the use of a managed care organization's own internal guidelines to determine what treatment is covered even when these guidelines are contrary to professionally developed standards of care. While this litigation is not necessarily based on federal parity laws, it reveals the divergence between coverage decision making and generally accepted standards of care, and has provided revealing insight into how insurers subvert federal parity laws by relying on internal guidelines that can harm their plan members."

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