For 25 years Insight Treatment Center’s highly regarded drug and alcohol program for teenagers has kept thousands of kids off the streets, out of the legal system, and back to their families to lead healthy and productive lives. Now this valuable program is threatened by health insurance company Health Net’s refusal to pay legitimate insurance claims.

Insight’s doors are on the verge of closing due to Health Net’s failure to pay claims for almost two years.

In 2008, a New Jersey Federal Judge found Health Net guilty of obstruction of justice for using “scorched earth” litigation tactics to avoid admitting they had been underpaying out-of-network providers by using a database purposely skewed in favor of insurance companies. In 2009, the judge accepted Health Net’s offer to settle the case for a record $250 million. Also in 2008, a California judge ordered Health Net to stop the controversial practice of canceling sick policyholders and to pay more than $9 million to a breast cancer patient dropped in the middle of chemotherapy.

The New Jersey Federal Judge believed she had changed the way Health Net would do business but by 2015 Health Net was at it again. The Addiction Treatment Advocacy Coalition (ATAC) believes Health Net’s failure to pay legitimate bills of hundreds of addiction treatment providers since August 2015 is directly related to Health Net’s successful efforts to merge with the Centene Corporation, ranked number 66 on the Fortune 500. If you agree, contact Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Health Net needs to pay the claims of Insight and other legitimate facilities without further delay.C\

Click here to see the youtube video about the devastation Health Net's dragnet audit has wreaked on Insight Recovery Center, one of California's premiere addiction treatment facilities for teenagers.