09/17/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"Medicare Advantage plans must be required to meet network adequacy standards for outpatient mental health and substance use disorder care."
"Okay, so it is a way to defraud consumers, to say you have this really big list of people you could go to if you had a problem."
"Federal law requires Medicare to cover mental health services in both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage."
"So look, what we are really saying here is that it is in the financial interest of these Medicare Advantage plans to discourage beneficiaries from accessing care."