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Private Medicare, Medicaid plans exaggerate in-network mental health options, watchdogs say

By Tony Leys Companies running private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans inaccurately list many mental health professionals as being available to treat the plans’ members, a new federal watchdog report says. The investigators allege that some insurers effectively set up “ghost networks” of psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who purportedly have agreed to treat […]

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