America s Mental Health Crisis
By Ann Matturro Gault
Not only is access to mental health care declining, a new study finds the majority of psychiatrists don t accept health insurance.
"My colleagues and I were hearing a lot of stories from patients who wanted mental health care but were unable to find a psychiatrist willing to take their insurance, so we decided to look into the problem," explains Tara Bishop, MD, an assistant professor of public health and an assistant attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Mental Health Care and Health Insurance
Bishop and fellow researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York surveyed a large group of psychiatrists from 2005-2010 and found—to their surprise—that the complaints were true: a majority of psychiatrists refused to accept Medicare, Medicaid and even private insurance. They also found:
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