Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.

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    4 days ago

    Oh that I agree with. It’s the whole, “most people don’t improve after 16 sessions” bit they had going. A lot of people out there require years of work to become functional again and the last thing they want to hear is that they’re a lost cause because they weren’t functional after a few months of therapy. Especially because it’s not true and because there’re far better ways to move someone into an outpatient/maintenance treatment plan than, “we yanked your funding because we think you’re actually okay now.” As the article explains, that kind of rug pull causes serious mental distress. It would cause anyone mental distress to have a support yanked out from under them, but people who are already struggling will obviously have worse outcomes.