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What Is a Health Insurance Network?

A network refers to a collection of health care professionals and facilities that contract with a health insurance company to ...
Health Affairs

Insurers Should Use Standardized Identifiers For Provider Networks To Empower Consumers

Industry and HHS should collaborate to develop a voluntary standardized identifier for provider networks that is consistent across all segments of the health insurance markets. To accomplish this, we ...
OPB

In Oregon and across the country, mental health providers are leaving insurance networks

For many in the U.S., it can be difficult to find a mental health provider that’s covered by insurance. But many mental health clinicians say insurance companies can make it difficult to be a part of ...
ProPublica

Struggling to Find an In-Network Mental Health Provider? Here’s What You Can Do.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. It’s hard to know if your health insurance plan is as good as ...
Reuters

Mental health network misled policyholders about provider options, lawsuit claims

April 28 (Reuters) - A mental health care provider network that works with the health insurance plan for New York State employees was hit with a federal lawsuit on Monday over claims it misled ...
The Business Journal

Adventist Health to exit Santé Network, affecting HMO patients in Central Valley

Adventist Health Physician Network will end its contract with Santé Community Physicians on Feb. 15, a move that will affect health maintenance organization (HMO) insurance coverage for patients ...