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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 ...
Popular Science

Struggling to find an in-network mental health provider? Here’s what you can do.

Insurers’ failures to update their provider directories have led to dire consequences for people seeking mental health care. Experts, clinicians, and advocates explain how you can navigate these ...
WUFT

Up against a 'ghost network' for mental health care? Here's what you can do

It’s hard to know if your health insurance plan is as good as advertised. You pay a monthly premium to access a network of health providers. But call the numbers in your provider directory, and you’re ...
NPR

6 things to know if your doctors are suddenly out of network

Last winter, Amber Wingler started getting a series of increasingly urgent messages from her local hospital in Columbia, Missouri, letting her know her family's health care might soon be upended. MU ...
OPB

Up against a ‘ghost network’ for mental health care? Here’s what you can do

Stone RF / PM Images/Getty Images It’s hard to know if your health insurance plan is as good as advertised. You pay a monthly premium to access a network of health providers. But call the numbers in ...