A new report leveraging insurance company data that once had been out of reach for both competing insurers and consumers has revealed glaring disparities between behavioral health and physical health in provider network composition and payment rates. Among the findings released this month by developers of the Mental Health Parity Index, it was reported that more than 40 states show greater barriers to accessing in‐network mental health and substance use treatment relative to physical health care.
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