How Much of Mental Health Care Is Covered by Health Insurance?

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In theory, health insurance companies need to cover mental health and part of the affordable care act. In reality, there are a lot of insurance companies partner with these other groups that do all their mental health care coverage. A lot of those groups just have really terrible reimbursement rates, so no clinitians want to take that insurance.

In Episode #86, we explore reinventing mental healthcare, therapy, and solving the access problem. We’re joined by Mike Clare, founder and CEO of Mood Health. We cover how the current mental health care system is broken, the customer experience at Mood Health, and Mood Health’s payment model.

“In some ways, one of the things that's really frustrating is that mental health is kind of become this luxury, where if you have the money, you can get great psychiatric care. If you can't afford that, then the system kind of breaks down and it becomes much more challenging.” – Mike Clare

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This episode is our definitive guide to solving the problem of access to mental health. In it we cover:

(00:00:00) – Introduction
(00:02:38) – Mike’s background and founding Mood Health
(00:07:19) – How the current mental health care system is broken
(00:10:07) – Defining mental health care
(00:12:04) – Psychiatry vs. talk therapy
(00:19:55) – The mental health care experience in America
(00:26:40) – Mike’s personal motivation in mental health care
(00:32:43) – The customer experience at Mood Health
(00:40:13) – Mood Health’s payment model
(00:48:45) – Designing for Mood Health

ABOUT MOOD HEALTH

Mood Health is opening up mental healthcare access to anyone with an internet connection. At the age of eight, Mike Clare's mom passed away suddenly, which left him grappling with depression that often felt crippling. He spent years seeing therapists and psychiatrists around the country, seeing firsthand just how broken the current system is. After spending a number of years at Juxtapose helping launch and scale incredible companies like Care/of, Great Jones, Perch, and Tend, he knew exactly what problem he wanted to tackle next, which is building a modern, mental and emotional wellness platform to give everyone great care at an affordable price, with the best clinicians, all accessible from anywhere.

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