Solara Mental Health

MARCH 14, 2022

TriWest Healthcare Alliance commonly referred to as TriWest, is an insurance that is part of the VAs Community Care Network (CCN) that specifically serves veterans. The VA requires medical documentation of all care to be submitted including an initial evaluation report and completion of care at the end of care with a discharge summary/plan.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Eating disorders Insurance 52

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. Documents get ignored. She had been through hell, and these unwanted people were making the situation much worse.

Sleep and mental health 128

Sleep and mental health Hospitality Legal Aging and mental health 128

Real Psychiatry

JANUARY 23, 2025

My job was to review all the available documentation and give an opinion on whether the care was substandard. It did not take long for the federal government to decide that it could be used for fraud investigations based on documentation and coding mismatches. One study (3) documented that 7.4%

Hospitality 52

Hospitality Insurance 52

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.

Pharmaceuticals 144

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Biopsychosocial model Hospitality 144

Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Of course, the World Health Organization has twice now issued 300-page documents saying we need a radical change away from the disease model and towards a human rights model, one that recognizes that there are social determinants of health. The rest is mostly funded through private health insurance that people are paying for.

Biopsychosocial model 141

Biopsychosocial model Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Insurance 141

Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

They not only have to comply with regulations and insurance company requirements but there’s also often a lack of advocacy at the higher levels to support specific programs like Open Dialogue. One of the biggest challenges Open Dialogue has faced in being implemented in the U.S.

Trauma and the brain 119

Trauma and the brain Mind-body connection Nonprofits Education 119

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.

Aging and mental health 141

Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 141

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

No matter that there is a last will and testament, a power of attorney, an estate plan, a trust, an irrevocable trust — in effect, judges nationwide nullify those legal documents and say, “Okay, go ahead, sell the house.” As a journalist, I have to have documents or other people confirming what you’re saying.”

Legal 132

Legal Hospitality Trauma and the brain Insurance 132

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Our goal became fostering and advocating for new models that could eventually gain enough traction to be accepted by insurance companies and provide a viable alternative to the DSM and ICD. She documents cases where medieval Europeans commissioned dissections not out of scientific curiosity but out of care for their families.

Genetics and mental health 139

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Mental health advocacy 139

Mad in America

JULY 17, 2024

Broadly, it was driven by well-documented abuse and neglect in asylums, spiraling hospital costs, and an overly optimistic faith in new medications. Many of these programs don’t even take insurance, so well-off families pay cash, making them the true clients. The history of deinstitutionalization is complex.

Poverty and mental health 138

Poverty and mental health Hospitality Family dynamics Nonprofits 138