Assessment of Perceptions of Mental Health vs Medical Health Plan Networks Among US Adults With Private Insurance.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Ten years after the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, patients continue to report insurance-related barriers to specialty mental health care.

Objectives

To assess privately insured patients' perceptions of the adequacy of their health plan's provider network (provider network includes physicians, clinicians, other health care professionals, and their institutions that constitute the network), whether practitioners frequently leave plans, and whether practitioner plan participation affected patients' plan choice.

Design, setting, and participants

A nationally representative, population-based internet survey study of English-speaking US adults participating in KnowledgePanel, an online research panel, was conducted from August to September 2018.

SUBMITTER: Busch SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8536951 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature