Key Takeaways
- Health plans offer broad access to a wide range of mental health professionals, with networks growing and reimbursements rising.
- Health insurance providers are equipping primary care providers
to provide mental health support.
- Health insurance providers are actively supporting consumers seeking mental health support.
Key Findings
- The number of in-network behavioral health providers has increased by an average of 48% in 3 years among commercial health plans.
- All plans (100%) provide coverage for tele-behavioral health services.
- The overwhelming majority of health plans (89%) are actively recruiting mental health care providers, including practitioners who reflect the diversity of the people they serve (83%), and 78% have increased payments to providers in efforts to recruit more high-quality professionals to their plan networks.
- The number of providers eligible to prescribe Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) for substance use disorder, including opioid dependence, has more than doubled – growing 114% over three years.