Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this blog, he introduces the book. I have felt that behavioral health was always something of a stepchild in the health insurance industry. However, I believe there is a path to improve the quality of healthcare to lower its cost and it lies with the large employer self-insured employee health plans, to which this book is dedicated.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 5, 2025

This blog explores the general TMS treatment schedule, what to expect during therapy, and answers to common questions such as how long does it take TMS to work? The cost of TMS varies based on location, provider, and insurance coverage. How much does TMS treatment cost, and is it covered by insurance? </p>

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Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2024

Then, her private insurance ran out, and she was admitted to a public hospital where they stopped all the drugs cold turkey. This was also serious medical malpractice. It is very dangerous to stop psychiatric drugs abruptly, which can cause akathisia, suicide and homicide.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Moreover, if there is nothing wrong with us, and it’s (‘just’) a normal response to our circumstances, it gives mental health services (or insurance companies) a convenient excuse not to provide health services or support.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Her rational is that if you see a loved one die because an insurance company denied care it is natural to want to see that person dead and this is not advocating homicide. Subsequent stories state that the insurance company planned to pay the time allotment indicated in the estimated relative value units (RVUs) for the surgery.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 8, 2025

In this blog, well explore how functional medicine helps with anxiety, including nutritional interventions, gut health , hormonal balance, and lifestyle modifications. Is functional medicine for anxiety covered by insurance? However, some components, such as nutrition counseling and hormone testing, may be reimbursable. <p>The

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I detail Mom’s full story in this blog post , and I relate both of our stories in my memoir Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery. Zurzuvae’s cost is estimated to be $16,000 for the 14 days and it is still not known if insurance will cover it. Mom continued to struggle to overcome depression until her death in 2002.

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Credible Mind

APRIL 17, 2024

New Jerseys largest health insurer. About CredibleMind Pro Video Directory On Flourishing: Blog Webinars Let’s Talk! NovaWell, recognizing the importance of a holistic approach to mental health, will be the first organization to offer The Flourishing Course alongside its affiliate, Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc.,

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

Without health insurance, known locally as medical aid, people living in South Africa are only guaranteed care for serious mental illness. No, she says. Theres nobody there. Its just the doctors and the nurses.

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Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

Monique: Under every blog, article, and video that deals with tapering and withdrawal, it is advised that you should never taper without consulting your treating physician. It seems that doctors are sometimes reluctant to admit the alleged error because of their liability and insurance policies.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? Once that happens, health insurance companies say okay, if it’s a disease in the brain, why should we pay for talk therapy? James Moore: Mary has sent in some questions and her first is, in the past, there were other tools used to at least try to help folks in crisis.

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Mad in America

MAY 18, 2024

To quote Marianna of HVNA, sister to a voice-hearer; ”things are more difficult for anyone who has suffered the disrespect and the irrational violence of a system that is unresponsive and places preconceptions, trade interests and insecurities and the contributions of insurance funds before human beings.”

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this blog, he addresses benzodiazepines and whether substance abuse disorders should be considered brain diseases. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Credible Mind

JUNE 5, 2024

New Jerseys largest health insurer. CredibleMind unveils The Flourishing Course at AHIP 2024 , the markets leading health insurance industry organization and conference in Las Vegas, June 12, 2024. By dedicating just a few hours per week, users can develop the skills and practices needed to live a more fulfilling life.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For example, suppose psychotherapy is not a realistic option: e.g. when insurance coverage is limited; or few therapists are taking new clients; or serial co-pays pose a financial burden.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 17, 2024

For the next few years, I navigated the labyrinth of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy policies, which hindered communication about the right mental health plan for my son. So his hospitalization nearly doubled his separation from his family. We were kept in the dark.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It involves clinicians setting down any agenda of treatment planning with prescribed objectives and goals (at the rushed pace of insurance companies), and instead listening patiently: taking the time to understand a person’s context and all its complexity before we jump to any diagnostic conclusions.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

I felt that facilitators needed to be paid not only as a symbol of their value to their community and their work, but by paying facilitators it helped insure the group’s longevity. Led by volunteers, I felt this model was not sustainable in the long term.

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

They also tend to rely at times on scientifically invalid tests due to lack of adequate research funding, and treatment remains inaccessible due to lack of coverage from insurance. While these models are steps in the right direction, they don’t resolve systemic issues that contribute to poor whole-body health.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. They diagnosed psychotic depression and forced her to stay and take a dangerous cocktail of drugs. But her 11-year-old son Oscar knew it was the pills.

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Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

We have to treat with medication,” he noted, “insurance demands it of us.” None of the doctors noticed that from that time, until about eight weeks later when I was discharged, I had not been medicated. Prior to being discharged I told the ward doctor that I had never swallowed pills. “We

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Mad in America

AUGUST 30, 2024

At this time I all but gave up on the VA and instead used my health insurance to access a civilian counselor. By then, I was so frustrated with the constant turnover of VA counselors, which forced me to retell and relive my trauma over and over again without action toward or evidence of recovery. At last, I am truly healing.

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Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

But before long, her insurance announced they wouldn’t cover it (my mother “didn’t meet the criteria”), and so I went home and—following the hospital’s guidelines—secured the windows, the doors, the fridge. She had been through hell, and these unwanted people were making the situation much worse.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The current challenge is to begin to integrate these into a viable model of community-based and peer-led mental health support that can function outside of the institutional framework of regulation, licensing, insurance, professional norms, and so forth.

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Sane Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

This gap exists largely because the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) which is designed to provide these supports, often makes it difficult for people with psychosocial disabilities to access the scheme. However, a recent national report from the Department of Health and Aged Care highlighted a troubling issue.

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Real Psychiatry

JANUARY 23, 2025

I have written about this issue many times on this blog. They could be barred from billing government insurers (Medicaid or Medicare). That number sounds large, but if there are roughly 40,000 psychiatrists treating 1,000 patients a year that is 40M people. I did ask for that reference but there apparently was none.

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PsychStaffing Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

An agency such as PsychStaffing will present qualified providers who are pre-screened and also handle benefits issues, and pay for insurance premiums, FICA, and CME expenses. Rather than losing time to hiring for the holidays, allow experts to match you with full-time or part-time providers for schedule gaps.

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PsychStaffing Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

Outside of a competitive salary, paid time off, health insurance, and retirement funds are important financial considerations to keep in mind. Evaluate Compensation and Benefits Of course, you need to think about the compensation and additional benefits you need in a potential job.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

In Australia, the economic cost has been particularly damaging to the life insurance industry who often pick up the cost of income protection for workers who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

MECTA Electroshock Device Manufacturer Files for Bankruptcy as its Shock Box Loses Liability Insurance. Guest blog: Call for an independent review into the practice of ECT. Blog: New NICE Guidelines for ECT are dangerously inadequate, say 50 patients and professionals. TruthAboutECT.Org. 2022, March 28). TruthAboutECT.Org.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This blog will break down the scope of naturopathic practice , the role of naturopathic pharmacy, and whether or not naturopaths can prescribe drugs as part of their treatment approach. Insurance coverage varies, making some treatments more costly for patients. Greater insurance coverage for naturopathic care.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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. How many people have chosen suicide because they cannot bear living a zombie-type existence devoid of clarity of thinking, heart-felt feelings or intentional willing?

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Mad in America

AUGUST 22, 2024

Moreover, the credentialing for peers to bill insurance, including Medicaid and Managed Care companies, is highly regulated. These constraints underscore the difficulties in aligning peer support with existing bureaucratic frameworks. As it stands, peers can only bill Medicaid if they work within OMH-licensed programs.

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2025

Even new psychotherapists (often Licensed Master Social Workers [LMSW], who cannot even practice as clinicians independently yet, as opposed to the Licensed Clinical Social Worker [LCSW]) often do not take insurance nor offer sliding scale fees. It may be a generalization, but many seem unwilling to serve lower-income clients at all.

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