Managed Healthcare Executive April 17, 2024
Psychiatrists and psychologists also had lower in-network reimbursement rates.
Mental healthcare is increasingly inaccessible, and more and more patients are going out-of-network to get help, the results of a new study from the nonprofit research organization Research Triangle Institute, shows.
The study, called Behavioral Health Parity – Pervasive Disparities in Access to In-Network Care Continue, was led by economists Tami L. Mark, Ph.D., MBA and William Parish, Ph.D. They used data from 2019 to 2021 from MarketScan,one of the largest commercial insurance claims databases, to see how often patients were using out-of-network providers. Results were published online today.
Mark and Parish found that patients were 10.6 times more likely to go out-of- network for psychological visits than to find specialty...
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