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News Articles: mental health parity

Mental health workers protest outside the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on a strip of Sunset Blvd. They are heading into their sixth month of striking over wages, benefits and time in between patients.

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  • Health

Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits

After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.

April 13, 2025
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
Tracy Hooper holds a redacted letter from her insurance company

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  • Mental Health

So-called insurance 'clawbacks' are driving Georgia mental health therapists into private practice

Many therapists want to be accessible to clients with insurance, but doing so is risky when billing errors and complex coding rules lead insurance companies to "claw back" previously paid reimbursements.

March 04, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

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  • Health

'I Don’t Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network

Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would give him access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist.

September 22, 2024
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By:
  • Max Blau
Interference by insurers is driving mental health care providers to flee networks. It makes treatment hard to find. Some states are passing laws to protect patients.

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  • Health

Insurers can restrict mental health care. What laws protect patients in your state?

It can be really hard to get mental health care in the U.S. Even if you find a therapist in network, your insurer can refuse to cover the prescribed treatment. Here are the laws protecting patients.

August 27, 2024
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By:
  • Annie Waldman and
  • Maya Miller
Top row, from left: Marsinah Ramirez Buchan, Philip Bender, Elizabeth Fisher. Bottom row, from left: Rosanne Marmor, Kendra F. Dunlap, and Carter J. Carter.

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  • Health

Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible. Here's why

Getting mental health care covered by insurance can be really tough. Reporters spoke to hundreds of therapists who left their insurance networks to find out why.

August 25, 2024
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By:
  • Annie Waldman,
  • Maya Miller,
  • and 2 more
State House Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver (D–Decatur) speaks at an event on Georgia's first Mental Health Parity Day at the Georgia Capitol on Feb. 8, 2024. 

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  • News

'Lawmakers': Mental Health Parity is front and center on Day 17

The Carter Center hosted its inaugural Mental Health Parity Day by the Georgia State Capitol. Mental health stakeholders, legislators, and leadership from several state agencies gathered to discuss how to advance implementation of the bipartisan Mental Health Parity Act passed in April 2022.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis and
  • Tristan Smith
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter attends a rally at the US Capitol in March 2008 when she helped get the mental health parity law enacted. Carter died on Nov. 19 at age 96.

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  • Mental Health

First Lady Rosalynn Carter's legacy on mental health boils down to one word: Hope

The former first lady fought with persistence to put care for mental and physical health on equal footing and to eliminate discrimination toward people with mental illnesses.

November 24, 2023
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By:
  • Christine Herman
The stretch of Deepstep Road in Washington County where Eurie Martin first encountered Washington County Sheriff's Deputies in 2017.

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  • Mental Health

Overwhelmed with mental health calls, six rural sheriffs make their own plan for better response

Despite limited state funding, sheriffs in central Georgia are planning a multi-county co-response program, the first of its kind in the region, to address what they call a crisis-level need.

September 13, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
President Biden delivers remarks on expanding access to mental health care in the East Room at the White House on Tuesday.

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  • Mental Health

'Gimme a break!' Biden blasts insurance hassles for mental health treatment

President Biden unveiled a set of proposed new rules for health insurance companies designed to push the industry to cover treatment for mental health problems on par with how it covers medical care.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Justin Howell sits behind glass at the intake window at the Behavioral Health Crisis Center in Athens, Georgia.

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  • Mental Health

1 year later, Georgia's Mental Health Parity Act is providing a framework for change

In 2022, Georgia passed the Mental Health Parity Act. It authorizes studies of how the state could and should pay for more of this critical mental care.

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

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  • Health

Teen with life-threatening depression finally found hope. Then insurance cut her off

Despite laws that say mental health care should be paid for on a par with other medical care, health insurance stopped covering the care a suicidal teen needed before she was stable.

April 18, 2023
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee

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  • Mental Health

Political Rewind: Where Georgia stands with mental health; 988 line; Jody Hice in Fulton probe

Tuesday on Political Rewind: In their last session, Georgia legislators passed a bipartisan bill to improve access to mental health services. This past week saw further progress with the launch of the 988 phone line, an emergency mental health crisis line, part of a new national network.

July 19, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Governor Kemp signs bill overhauling mental health

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  • Mental Health

Gov. Kemp signs mental health overhaul bill

Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Monday aimed at pulling Georgia off the bottom among state rankings for access to mental-health services.

April 04, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Demonstrators rally at the Georgia Capitol in support of a mental health parity bill in March 2022.

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  • Politics

Georgia senators weaken mental health bill parity rules, remove WHO mentions

A Senate panel has scaled back a sweeping mental health proposal following loud opposition from conservative activists.

March 29, 2022
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
People protesting mental health bill at Georgia State Capitol

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  • Mental Health

Backers of mental health bill defend proposal after sudden pushback

Supporters of a sweeping mental health bill are defending the proposal after it was met with spirited opposition in the Senate this week.

March 24, 2022
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
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