Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds
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The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.
@ProPublica this has been my direct experience. Modern insurance is completely useless, even the costly high end plans. It's a joke.
@ProPublica "The report [...] also detailed the results of secret shopper surveys of more than 4,300 mental health providers listed in insurance directories and found an “alarming proportion” were “unresponsive or unreachable.”
This was my experience. Spent a month working through a crisis alone. Half of the listed doctors were out of practice or had moved to a different practice. The rest did not answer or return calls. Had to build a spreadsheet to keep track of the thirty places I called.
