{"id":2726,"date":"2020-05-27T17:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T21:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/bloomberg-law-matt-lavin-on-delaying-mental-health-suits\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:39:13","slug":"bloomberg-law-matt-lavin-on-delaying-mental-health-suits","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/whitepapers\/bloomberg-law-matt-lavin-on-delaying-mental-health-suits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Law: Matt Lavin on Delaying Mental Health Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of insurance companies trying to put the brakes indefinitely on cases using the ubiquitous \u2018Covid\u2019 excuse,\u201d said Matt Lavin, a partner at Napoli Shkolnik PLLC who almost exclusively represents behavioral health patients and providers.<\/p>\n<p>In every single case he has pending, without exception, Lavin said insurance company lawyers have used the pandemic to delay and indefinitely pause litigation related to mental health treatment. Attorneys say this doesn\u2019t bode well for the future coverage of behavioral health care, even as more claims for coverage are expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were already in one mental health epidemic and now we\u2019re deep in the middle of another one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got dual mental health crises where people don\u2019t have access to care and insurance companies are saying essentially, \u2018We don\u2019t care at all about the patients or them getting treatment. We\u2019re just too busy to take a look at changing our guidelines.\u2019 I think it\u2019s unconscionable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of insurance companies trying to put the brakes indefinitely on cases using the ubiquitous \u2018Covid\u2019 excuse,\u201d said Matt Lavin, a partner at Napoli Shkolnik PLLC who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":163,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[293,298,303,304,309,368,370,371],"whitepaper-source":[154],"class_list":["post-2726","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-healthcare","whitepaper_category-insurance","whitepaper_category-erisa","whitepaper_category-parity","whitepaper_category-insurance-claims","whitepaper_category-health-and-safety","whitepaper_category-coronavirus","whitepaper_category-covid-19","whitepaper-source-bloomberg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}