Insurance Is Supposed to Cover Addiction Treatment, But It's Still a Nightmare (Vice)
This article explains the challenges that patients, families and treatment centers face. Insurance companies have all the power and resources though not the law on their side. The problem is that denying care is easy and patients and their families don’t have the luxury of time to fight for authorization of care. In the end the cost of delay could be an overdose death. The truth is that all stakeholders want the same outcome, high quality care, positive patient outcomes at an affordable cost.