by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-16/insurance-covers-mental-health-but-good-luck-using-it Comment; Insurance companies routinely create huge barriers–essentially denying care–cleverly. “Follow the money”; until we get legislators...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
By KATIE THOMAS and CHARLES ORNSTEINSEPT. 17, 2017 At a time when the United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic, many insurers are limiting access to pain medications that carry a lower risk of addiction or dependence, even as they provide comparatively easy...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/9/1624.abstract?sid=248e0c00-c550-4739-83bb-afc36d38800d Jane M. Zhu1,*, Yuehan Zhang2 and Daniel Polsky3 Abstract There is increasing concern about the extent to which narrow-network plans, generally defined as those...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Spirituality & Catholicism
It’s time to recognize mental health as essential to physical health By JOHN CAMPO MAY 31, 2017 T he human brain is a wonder. Through folds of tissue and pulses of electricity, it lets us perceive, attempt to understand, and shape the world around us. As science...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rhode-island/articles/2017-05-17/4-insurers-to-end-pre-approval-process-for-addiction-meds PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island health insurance commissioner says the state’s four major health insurers will end a...
