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Lisa Kantor, a Los Angeles lawyer and partner in Kantor & Kantor LLP, represents people denied health benefits for treatment of both physical and mental illnesses. She is an expert in federal and state mental health parity laws, how to maximize insurance benefits, and how to obtain insurance coverage for mental health and eating disorder treatment.

Most recently, Ms. Kantor has focused her efforts litigating denials of medically necessary treatment for eating disorders. Kantor & Kantor is the only law firm in the country with a distinct eating disorder practice staffed with lawyers and other professionals experienced in the specific needs of people who have been denied benefits for residential care for eating disorder treatment.

Ms. Kantor sues health plans that refuse coverage or that agree to pay for treatment then deny benefits, forcing patients to be prematurely discharged. Ms. Kantor regularly wins benefit reinstatements through reviews at state healthcare regulatory agencies. She also appeals eating disorder denials to federal appellate courts. In 2007, she won the first published eating disorder decision in California in which the court applied the state’s mental health parity law to beneficiaries who sought treatment outside California. In 2012, she won the first federal court ruling that determined health plans must pay for all medically necessary treatment for mental illnesses, including residential treatment. She is currently challenging health plans’ use of inappropriate guidelines to deny the proper level of care, and she speaks to lawmakers about the need for stronger laws to facility effective treatment for people with severe eating disorders.

Follow Ms. Kantor on Twitter @KantorKantor.

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