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Preparing to overcome insurer obstacles
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No Suitable In-Network Clinician
Provider Network – What to Expect
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What Else? Further Steps
Denied: Not Medically Necessary
Medical Necessity Letter
Next Steps With Your insurer
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Denied: Eating Disorder Care
“What If My Insurer…?”
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WGN Radio: “How To Get Mental Health Insurance Coverage” (February 2026)
NBC Daily with Kate Snow and Zinhle Essamuah (October 2025)
NBC Daily with Morgan Radford and Vicky Nguyen (October 2025)
The Educated Patient (October 2025)
Feature on 9 and 10 News in Michigan – “How to Overcome Obstacles to Needed Mental Healthcare” (May 2025)
WNYC Radio: “I Don’t Want to Die” – a Theatre of War Production (April 2025)
Feature on WKRC Local 12 in Cincinnati (Sinclair Media Network) (February 2025)
WGN Radio: “What To Do If You Are Denied Health Coverage” (January 2025)
GBS TV Production: “Cover My Mental Health: A Documentary” (November 2024)
Feature on 6ABC Action News in Philadelphia (July 2024)
News Media – Print
Better Magazine: “When Insurance Denies Mental Health Coverage, This Nonprofit Helps Patients and Doctors Appeal” (February 2026)
Honest Care Systems: “When Insurance Gets in the Way of Mental Health Care” (February 2026)
Health Care un-covered (Wendell Potter) guest blog – “Insurers Keep Saying No But Patients and Clinicians Are Fighting Back” (September 2025)
Mental Health America: “Who Can Help Me Deal with the Obstacles My Health Insurer Has Put in the Way…” (July 2025)
Plan Sponsor Council of America: “DOL Body Finds Health Insurers Improperly Deny Claims…” (March 2025)
Seattle Times: Tips for navigating health insurance denials and other frustrations (February 2025)
MindSite News: “Fury Mounts Over Insurance Claims Denials (December 2024)
ProPublica on “ghost networks” (September 2024)
News Media – Print (for Clinicians)
American Psychiatric Association blog post – “How to Overcome Challenges to Getting Insurance Coverage for Mental Health Care” (April 2026)
Frontier Psychiatrists: “I Apparently Failed to Obtain Prior Authorization…” (April 2025)
Frontier Psychiatrists: “I Apparently Failed to Obtain Prior Authorization…” (April 2025)
Illinois Psychiatric Society newsletter – “A New Resource Supporting Clinicians…” (December 2025)
Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association newsletter (November 2025)
Psychiatric Times: “Helping Clinicians and Patients Overcome Insurance Barriers to Mental Health Care (May 2025)
Psychiatric News: “A Tool for Pushing Back Against Insurance Denials” (April 2025)
Psychology Today: “What to Do With Insurance Company Therapy Denials” (March. 2025)
Psychology Today: Getting Insurance to Cover Mental Health (October 2024)
Podcasts
“Why Not Me?” With Tony Mantor (January 2026)
Honest Providers with Dalton Young (January 2026)
Denied but Not Defeated (National Council for Mental Wellbeing (October 2025)
Rejected by Your Insurer… Don’t Be Discouraged (Mental Health America of Illinois) (October 2025)
Getting Insurance to Pay for OCD Therapy (Carrie Bock) (October 2025)
Fighting Back: Joe Feldman on Covering Mental Health Care with Seth Kahan (September 2025)
An Inspiring Advocate for Therapists (Guy MacPherson) (June 2025)
American Brain Coalition, hosted by Katie Sale (January 2025)
Real Talk with Marcus McCoy (January 2025)
Practice of Therapy With Gordon Brewer (December 2024)
Policy Chats – University of California Riverside (November 2024)
Doorknob Comments with Dr. Grant Brenner (November 2024)
Mental Health Today (June 2024)
Publications
Providing a Routine Medical Necessity Letter (Journal of Psychiatric Practice; July 2021)
