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Start Maximizing Your Insurance for Therapy in the New Year

Zencare

Published on January 16, 2025 by Zencare Team and reviewed by Natalie Asalgado, LCSW. Therapy can be life-changing, but many people leave valuable health insurance benefits on the table simply because they dont know how to maximize them. Your insurance plan should come with a Summary of Benefits Coverage guide.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Please donate to help us continue our work in 2025 and beyond. Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. You can become a MIA Supporter for $5 per month or $20 annually. That has not happened.

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The Freshman’s Guide to Managing ADHD Care

ADDitude

To identify medical professionals in the community around your students new school who accept your insurance, consult your students insurance website. Insurance network lists can be outdated with clinicians who are no longer taking new patients. Most do not. Call early.

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Understanding Trauma Following a Natural Disaster

Zencare

Published on February 1, 2025 by Zencare Team. Dropping off meals, bringing them clean clothes, spending time with them, helping them with calls to insurance can all be very impactful. Natural disasters are powerful and unpredictable events that often leave lasting physical and emotional scars.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

44 Behavioral therapy is used by just 44% of pediatric patients, in part because its not always covered by medical insurance and knowledgeable providers are scarce. In addition, neurofeedback is seldom covered by insurance and involves a significant investment of time and money. Published online 2025:1-8. PMID: 20631199.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

2025; Murphy, 2021; Neugebauer, 2024; Oppenheim, 2022; Oprison, 2021; Roche, 2016; Rogers, 2021; Simonson, 2020; Singh, 2016; Smith, 2008; Stence & Stence, 2022; Tenney, 2016). 2025; MindFreedom International, 2016; Murphy, 2021; Ogles, 2023; Oppenheim, 2022; Oprison, 2021; Read, 2022; Read et al., 2018; Life After ECT Inc.,

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

Mad in America

To be a doctor aiming to practice the art of healing is almost impossible today due to the power of big pharma and insurance companies. The first training will be the Spring of 2025. These three soul forces define being human. How many doctors have a clear conscience regarding their promise: “Do no Harm”?