Insurance Company Practices Limit Access to MH Care, Finds New Report

This report echoes what APA has been saying for the past several years—that insurers are not maintaining adequate networks of mental health providers for patients and that psychiatrists are reimbursed less than primary care doctors for the same services,” Levin said. “We call upon state and federal regulators to ensure that insurance companies are abiding by parity laws already on the books.” For related information, see thePsychiatric News article “Enforcement of Parity Law Broadens to Include New Areas of Insurer Violations.”(Image: iStock/123light)For previous news alerts,click here.
Source: Psychiatr News - Category: Psychiatry Tags: access to care mental health parity Milliman out-of-network care parity law phantom networks physician reimbursement Saul Levin Source Type: research