The Behavioral Health Care Affordability Problem

Two in 5 Americans are unable to afford an unexpected $1,000 expense.80 Therefore, many individuals faced with urgent behavioral health needs ...

Here's Why Mental Healthcare Is So Unaffordable & How COVID-19 ...

Mental health coverage limits. Historically, coverage for mental healthcare has paled in comparison to its physical health counterpart.

Access and Cost Barriers to Mental Health Care by Insurance Status ...

Given the potential of the Affordable Care Act to substantially change insurance patterns and access to care for people with mental health problems, it is ...

Reducing the Economic Burden of Unmet Mental Health Needs | CEA

Even if treatment is affordable, treating mental health disorders requires adequate capacity of the behavioral health workforce so that access ...

Improving Access: Paving the Way for Affordable Behavioral ...

While rising healthcare costs are not a new issue, what presents a fresh challenge for health plans, employers, and individuals is the surging ...

How affordable is mental healthcare | McKinsey

Affordability barriers are compounding these challenges by limiting mental health access for many in need. Among our findings: About the ...

Americans' Challenges with Health Care Costs - KFF

Difficulty Affording Medical Costs · Half Of Adults Say It Is Difficult To Afford Health Care Costs, Including Large Shares Of The Uninsured, ...

The Cost of Not Getting Care: Income Disparities in the Affordability ...

The Cost of Not Getting Care: Income Disparities in the Affordability of Health Services Across High-Income Countries · U.S. Health Care from a ...

Who Gets Mental Health Care? The Role of Burden and Cash ...

Only 47% of adults with mental illness received any mental health services in 2021, 1 due in part to workforce shortages.

Is Mental Healthcare Becoming more Affordable?

These kinds of issues can increase mental stress and become a barrier to treatment. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you are less ...

Exploring Barriers to Mental Health Care in the U.S.

Even among individuals with insurance, issues such as a lack of available providers, inadequate insurance coverage, high out-of-pocket costs, and fragmented ...

States Seek to Lower Costs, Increase Coverage of Mental Health Care

An October 2022 Kaiser Family Foundation poll found adults were most likely to cite costs and insurance not covering mental health like physical ...

Most Americans with mental health needs don't get treatment, report ...

Roughly two-thirds of Americans with a diagnosed mental health condition were unable to access treatment in 2021, though they had health insurance.

Cost and accessibility of mental health care in America - CNBC

But there are still a lot of medical and insurance loopholes that exist that make it difficult for patients to get affordable care, says Angela ...

Fix the foundation: Unfair rate setting leads to inaccessible mental ...

In mental health care, market failures are easy to see because so many providers do not take insurance. A psychiatrist could make more than ...

Health Insurers Still Don't Adequately Cover Mental Health Treatment

Studies show that network adequacy for mental health treatment is a real issue. A 2019 report found that a behavioral health office visit is ...

Behavioral Health Care in U.S.: How It Works, Where It Falls Short

Is access to behavioral health providers a big problem? ... Poor access to behavioral health services is a serious obstacle to treatment. In some ...

To Improve Behavioral Health, Start by Closing the Medicaid ...

For those without a pathway to coverage, closing the coverage gap would expand access to critically needed behavioral health services ...

Does the Affordable Care Act cover individuals with mental health ...

Mental and behavioral health services are considered what's called essential health benefits. Most individual and small employer health ...

Affordable Mental Health Care Is Getting Harder to Access

People seeking inpatient care for behavioral health issues were 5.2 times more likely to be relegated to an out-of-network provider than for ...