<prompt> Human: This is in Oregon. My fiancée has been struggling with an eating disorder this yeah. In nine months, shes gone through treatment two complete times until insurance cut her off usually long before the treatment team recommends, then relapsed and been hospitalized after each time because she wasnt recovered.This time she started in residential treatment where she DID get adequate time, then dropped down to partial hospitalization. Shes been there a few weeks and made good progress, but now sure enough insurance says they dont want to pay anymore. Shes been following the program but her medicine has been in flux and shes nowhere near ready to be on her own again, which her treatment team agrees with. The insurance company set up a doc-to-doc review but my fiancées therapist said they essentially came on to the phone call with their mind made up that she had had enough treatment.We are really scared and not ready for her to be on her own yet. Is there anything outside the insurance company she can do to appeal or fight their decision?  <response>: Insurance will often have someone review her progress and make a decision to lower the level of care if THEY deem it appropriate. You can get the teams doctor to request a doctor to doctor review, request an appeal and they can use the fact that shes relapsed each time she was stepped down to help. Whoever talks to them really needs to prepare for the call in advance and make her sound as ill as possible.Mentioning lawyers sometimes helps as the doctor hired by the insurance company is paid by them to essentially deny care and could be held responsible if there is a serious problem when she relapses. I hate to do this but it can be your only show of force at times. 