That's all well and good -- but that doesn't mean that he was disabled from work during the time prior to his entry into rehab, and he chose not to tell his employer that he was sitting at home during the week after his approved FMLA leave ended and when he entered rehab.
As your husband has been told by his employer and by his union rep, that's not sufficient.Quoting Mapper
Was that yet another lie? Because if he went through a process to have his employer disable him from working based on his mental state, and they in fact did so, none of this would be an issue.Quoting Mapper
If this was predicated upon your husband's lying to his supervisor, it doesn't help him.Quoting Mapper
Right -- he is disabled during the time he was in rehab (and his employer has apparently not figured out that he left before the program ended), but he was not disabled from working after his three week leave for his (fake) back injury ended, but before he went into rehab.Quoting Mapper
You have told us that your husband is seeing a doctor for his back condition. You have told us that your husband did a phone intake with an employer-approved specialist before he even told his supervisor that he was going to go to rehab. If his doctor was unable to detect any sign of mental stress, that could be an issue for him. If he lied about the phone intake, that would appear to be a big part of his present problem. If the best he can do is ask the doctor he saw at intake on March 27 to opine as to what his mental state may have been during the prior week, then that's the best he can do -- he can see what opinion the doctor can share and hope it satisfies his employer.Quoting Mapper
If he has a long history of treatment for various disorders, including those that he repeatedly uses to get FMLA leave from work, but has not once mentioned a problem with alcohol, mental stress or mental function, then it starts to look like he's once again malingering.Quoting Mapper
You also make it sound like the insurance company found that inpatient treatment was not necessary, and that the treatment facility concurred with that determination when discharging him after 14 days.
I don't actually have to look at another site to see that (a) she doesn't see a problem with her husband's lying to his employer to get protected time off of work, (b) she doesn't hold her husband accountable for his actions, and (c) her husband's decision to take five weeks off of work without pay was just fine, but somehow it's the employer's fault that she can't afford a cat sitter for her planned vacation.

