A Wayne mother battled a New Jersey insurance company for coverage for her daughter’s Anorexia treatment in September.
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Dawn Beye’s 16 year old daughter suffers from anorexia and needs critical treatment. But the insurance company doesn’t consider eating disorders mental illnesses and do not fall under the category of “biologically-based.”
An independent review organization has sided with the insurer, Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey, who declined to cover in-patient recovery treatment for over 30 days. Dawn appealed the decision and has found out that her appeal was denied. She will now fight against Horizon by filing a suit and push for a law that requires insurers to cover eating disorders.
"This is a huge disappointment. I think this decision is intellectually dishonest," Beye said last week.
The Horizon spokesperson, Thomas Rubino, declared, “We explained what the State of New Jersey law is and that anorexia and other eating disorders are not considered biologically based mental illnesses.”
