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Condition class · subcategory · California

Growth Horm Def denials at external review

When a California health plan denied care for growth horm def and the enrollee took it to Independent Medical Review, this is what independent physician reviewers decided.

56.4%

Overturned
22 of 39
Era
2021-2025
Jurisdiction
California DMHC IMR
Published class
Growth Horm Def
Median days to decision
41
All years
40.9% of 313
22 overturned17 upheld

Authorities named in this class

computed
  • FDA20
  • National Institutes of Health1

A rate here is the outcome of decisions that named the authority, not the effect of naming it. Reviewers cite the standard they applied; the citation and the outcome share a cause.

By treatment

computed
  • Overturned — the reviewer did not sustain the denial
  • Upheld — the reviewer sustained the denial
  • Pharmacy55.3%38
  • Diagnostic imaging & screening1

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The specific treatments inside this class

below n=30, no rate is claimed
  • Hormones55.3%38
  • Lab Work1

Every figure on this page is conditional on a denial having reached external review. Fewer than 1% of denials are appealed internally at all, so this describes denials that were fought to the end — not denials in general — and it describes California only. Who this does not cover.

Free help, first: the California DMHC Help Center files your Independent Medical Review at no cost — 1-888-466-2219, dmhc.ca.gov.