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Why Are Some Health Insurers Denying Treatment After It’s Working?

Why Are Some Health Insurers Denying Treatment After It’s Working?

Update: 2025-01-14
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Some insurers are denying mental health treatment when they deem the patient has started to improve. A ProPublica investigation shows that the level of improvement is hard to measure, and the guidelines insurers are using to make these decisions do not always match mental health providers’ standards of care.

Reset gets the story from ProPublica reporter Duaa Eldeib.

For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Why Are Some Health Insurers Denying Treatment After It’s Working?

Why Are Some Health Insurers Denying Treatment After It’s Working?