Why Insurance Won't Cover Innovative Treatments for Depression--Answered!

The mystery solved!

If you are one of the people who has already left an open comment related to the federal open comment period on CMS’s Proposed New Technology Add On Payment for the only Psychiatric Treatment on the docket, this doesn’t apply to you!

Look
If you had one shot, or one opportunity
To advocate for everything you ever wanted
One open comment period,
Would you capture it or just let it slip?

-Eminem, in my head

I have complained that Big Insurance does not pay for innovative treatments in psychiatry.

Other people have complained about this.

CMS, aka the government, has proposed CHANGES to the rules that would allow Medicare to pay for New Technologies for Psychiatric Treatment (via the NTAP Program). The man is this photo is leaving an open comment with new Vision Pro, I presume?

Now, there is by the legal opportunity for a few more glorious days for you, my citizen readers, to write in and officially support this change.

This process is not magic. It is boring. It involves proposes rules. And then…