{"id":8244,"date":"2017-09-22T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8244"},"modified":"2017-09-22T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:30:57","slug":"narrow-networks-get-even-tighter-when-shopping-for-mental-health-specialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8244","title":{"rendered":"Narrow Networks Get Even Tighter When Shopping For Mental Health Specialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">If you\u2019ve got a plan offered on the federal health law\u2019s insurance marketplace and you\u2019re looking for a therapist, you may have to look really hard: The average provider network includes only 11 percent of all the mental health care providers in a given market, according to a\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"background: #ffffff; color: #003b79; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-color: #cecece; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/36\/9\/1624.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent study<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/narrow-networks-get-even-tighter-when-shopping-for-mental-health-specialists\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=56611878&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_6nAG4Dpbm26nvfP-KGUEdpmW-3qaFoLzbhOp4MBCXz7YgPeM_CjGlX0wrGt3jFTh-OxyLnLoZ3evUd63pBf0fGAEt8A&amp;_hsmi=56611878\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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