National Association for Behavioral Healthcare Denial-of-Care Portal is Now Live

WASHINGTON, June 25 (TNSOps) -- The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare issued the following news:

The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare is pleased to introduce the NABH Denial-of-Care Portal, a resource for members to provide information about their experiences with managed care organizations that impose barriers to care through insurance-claim denials.

NABH's Managed Care Committee has worked for more than a year to develop the Denial-of-Care Portal as a way to collect specific data on insurers who deny care--often without regard to parity or the effects on patients.

This NABH member-only, survey-like tool allows users to add the name of a managed care organization, type of plan, level of care, type of care (mental health or substance use disorder), duration of approved treatment, duration of unapproved treatment, criteria used to deny a claim, and more.

The portal allows members to submit individual examples of claim denials or upload multiple entries via Excel. It also includes sections on appeals and physician participation. In time, the tool could be a valuable resource for the NABH team's advocacy efforts.

"One of the best ways we can advocate for parity enforcement with policymakers and regulators is to provide hard data from our members that show how insurers are not complying with the landmark 2008 parity law," said NABH President and CEO Shawn Coughlin. "We hope to gather this critical data through our new Denial-of-Care Portal."