MedCity News June 20, 2023
Marissa Plescia

There are a lot of administrative hurdles behavioral health providers have to go through to join an insurer’s network. That’s why the industry needs something similar to the “Common App” for applying to be in-network with insurers, said Cara McNulty, president of behavioral health and mental wellbeing at CVS Health. The Common App allows students to apply to multiple colleges through one application.

More than half of adults with a mental illness don’t receive treatment. Part of this is due to not only a lack of behavioral health providers, but also a lack of behavioral health providers who are in-network.

To be part of an insurer’s network, there are many hoops for behavioral health providers, said Cara McNulty, president of...

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