MedPage Today September 12, 2023
— Many in-school plans offered free counseling sessions, but privacy concerns may be a barrier
Health insurance coverage for mental health treatment for medical students after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic had a median out-of-network annual deductible at least twice the median in-network deductible, though most schools offered free therapy sessions, a quality improvement study showed.
Among the health insurance plans for the 138 U.S. medical schools included in this study, the median out-of-network annual deductible was $700 compared with $300 for in-network providers, reported J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and colleagues.
Meanwhile, the median out-of-pocket maximum was $10,000 out-of-network versus $5,500 in-network, they noted in JAMA Internal Medicine.
However, free therapy...
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