Merit Behavioral Care Corp. v. State of Vermont Independent Panel of Mental Health Providers

¶ 1. Merit Behavioral Care Corporation, a review agent that contracted with the State during the relevant time period to provide mental health care benefits to state employees, appeals the superior court’s summary judgment order dismissing its complaint seeking to overturn an independent panel’s decision that Merit should have provided coverage for state employee Jane Doe’s mental health treatment at the Austen Riggs Center. Merit contends that the superior court erred in concluding that (1) Merit had a statutory obligation to provide prospective or concurrent review of Jane Doe’s treatment…