President Biden is making a fresh push to force insurance companies to improve access to mental health treatment for those who struggle to find and afford the care they need. Biden puts insurers on blast about mental health costs:
WASHINGTON, July 25 - President Joe Biden is making a fresh push to force health insurance companies to improve access to mental health treatment for Americans who too often struggle to find and afford the care they need, officials said on Tuesday.
The rule change would require health plans to make changes when they are providing inadequate access to mental health care. "Despite the repeated bipartisan efforts aimed at mental health parity, insurers too often make it difficult to access mental health treatment, causing millions of consumers to seek care out-of-network at significantly higher costs and pay out of pocket, or defer care altogether," the White House said in a fact sheet announcing the rule change proposal.
The White House fact sheet cited one study it said showed that insured people are well more than twice as likely to be forced to go out-of-network and pay higher fees for mental health care than for physical health care.
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