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covermymentalhealth.org

An estimated 15 – 22 million mental health and substance use disorder insurance claims are denied each year by private insurers.

Cover My Mental Health supports individuals to overcome insurer obstacles to care, notably denials for “not medically necessary,” “no in-network provider” available, and other inexplicable barriers to care.

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RAND STUDY:
More Than 40 Percent of Americans Know Someone Who Died of Drug Overdose; 13 Percent Say Deaths Have Disrupted Their Lives
https://www.rand.org/news/press/2024/02/21.html

GOOD TO KNOW:

Some of the bills in California working toward Insurance Reform, holding the companies accountable to provide life saving treatment."

AB669:

On and after January 1, 2027, this California Senate Bill would prohibit concurrent or retrospective review of medical necessity of in-network health care services and benefits (1) for the first 28 days of a treatment plan for inpatient or residential substance use disorder stay at a specified licensed facility during each plan or policy year or (2) for outpatient services provided by specified certified programs for substance use disorder visits, except as specified.

SB363:

California Senate Bill 363 would require a health care service plan or health insurer to annually report to the appropriate department the total number of claims processed by the health care service plan or health insurer for the prior year and its number of treatment denials or modifications, separated and disaggregated as specified, commencing on or before June 1, 2026.