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He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame.

by Max Blau

June 2, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
We Found Widespread Abuse of Disabled Patients at an Illinois Facility. The DOJ Is Investigating.

by Beth Hundsdorfer and Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois

March 24, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds

by Duaa Eldeib, Maya Miller, Annie Waldman and Max Blau

January 24, 2025, 6:00 am EST

Series

56 stories published since 2008

Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care

by Maya Miller and Jeremy Kohler

August 18, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame.

by Max Blau

June 2, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Director of Arizona Medicaid Agency Resigns Following Fraud Scheme Response

by Mary Hudetz

May 2, 2025, 3:40 pm EDT
Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.

by Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune

April 30, 2025, 8:00 am EDT
New Utah Law Seeks to Crack Down on Life Coaches Offering Therapy Without a License

by Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune

March 27, 2025, 10:35 am EDT
We Found Widespread Abuse of Disabled Patients at an Illinois Facility. The DOJ Is Investigating.

by Beth Hundsdorfer and Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois

March 24, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response

by Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, and Hannah Bassett, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

January 27, 2025, 7:00 am EST
Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds

by Duaa Eldeib, Maya Miller, Annie Waldman and Max Blau

January 24, 2025, 6:00 am EST
Is a New Mississippi Law Decreasing Jailings of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment? The State Doesn’t Know.

by Gwen Dilworth, Mississippi Today

January 23, 2025, 5:00 am EST
Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.

by Maya Miller and Duaa Eldeib

December 31, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts

by Duaa Eldeib and Maya Miller, with research by Kirsten Berg

December 30, 2024, 6:00 am EST
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism

by Annie Waldman

December 13, 2024, 6:00 am EST
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

by Annie Waldman

November 19, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Arizona Cracked Down on Medicaid Fraud That Targeted Native Americans. It Left Patients Without Care.

by Hannah Bassett, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, and Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, photography by Adriana Zehbrauskas, special to ProPublica

September 10, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
New Biden Administration Rules Aim to Hold Insurers Accountable for Mental Health Care Coverage

by Maya Miller and Annie Waldman

September 9, 2024, 1:45 pm EDT
“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network

by Max Blau, illustrations by Vanessa Saba, special to ProPublica

September 8, 2024, 6:05 am EDT
Struggling to Find an In-Network Mental Health Provider? Here’s What You Can Do.

by Max Blau

September 8, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
What Mental Health Care Protections Exist in Your State?

by Annie Waldman and Maya Miller

August 27, 2024, 7:00 am EDT
Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance

by Annie Waldman, Maya Miller, Duaa Eldeib and Max Blau, photography by Tony Luong, design by Zisiga Mukulu

August 25, 2024, 7:00 am EDT
When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Instead

by Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune

June 17, 2024, 8:00 am EDT
This Mississippi Hospital Transfers Some Patients to Jail to Await Mental Health Treatment

by Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today

May 28, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
Mississippi Lawmakers Move to Limit the Jail Detentions of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment

by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today

May 13, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Chair Calls for More Mental Health Care Providers in Rural Areas

by ProPublica

April 22, 2024, 10:30 am EDT
After Decades of Imprisoning Patients, Idaho Approves Secure Mental Health Facility

by Audrey Dutton

April 10, 2024, 7:00 am EDT
Lawmakers Could Limit When County Officials in Mississippi Can Jail People Awaiting Psychiatric Treatment

by Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today

March 1, 2024, 5:00 am EST
In Crisis, She Went to an Illinois Facility. Two Years Later, She Still Isn’t Able to Leave.

by Molly Parker and Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois

February 8, 2024, 8:00 am EST
Veterans Affairs Secretary Vows to Increase Staffing at Clinic Tied to Two Deadly Shootings

by ProPublica

January 31, 2024, 10:10 am EST
5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into How Mississippi Counties Jail People for Mental Illness

by Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today

January 16, 2024, 5:00 am EST
How the VA Fails Veterans on Mental Health

by Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi

January 9, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Three Days of Tragedy: How a VA Clinic’s Inability to Help Veterans in Crisis Destroyed Two Families

by Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi, ProPublica, photography by Loren Elliott for ProPublica

January 6, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice

by Audrey Dutton

December 13, 2023, 6:00 am EST
Mississippi Jailed More Than 800 People Awaiting Psychiatric Treatment in a Year. Just One Jail Meets State Standards.

by Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today

November 13, 2023, 5:00 am EST
Legislators Demand Hearings on Illinois Mental Health Facility Where Staff Abused Patients and Covered It Up

by Molly Parker, Lee Enterprises Midwest, and Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois

February 23, 2023, 4:00 pm EST
New Report Says Nurses at Illinois Facility Forced Patients to Dig Through Their Own Feces

by Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois, and Molly Parker, Lee Enterprises Midwest

February 10, 2023, 8:30 am EST
Patients Went to This Isolated Facility for Treatment. Instead, Nearly Two Dozen Were Charged With Crimes.

by Molly Parker, Lee Enterprises Midwest and Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois

December 22, 2022, 9:00 am EST
Child Welfare Experts Say New Mexico Can’t Put Kids in Homeless Shelters Just Because It Lacks Other Beds

by Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico

December 7, 2022, 3:10 pm EST
Report Finds “Code of Silence” at Mental Health Facility Where Staff Abused and Neglected Patients

by Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois, and Molly Parker, Lee Enterprises Midwest

November 11, 2022, 8:30 am EST
Chilling Audio Provides Rare Glimpse Into Abuse at Troubled Illinois Residential Facility

by Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois, and Molly Parker, Lee Enterprises Midwest

October 10, 2022, 8:30 am EDT
Critical Omissions Plague Texas Gun Background Check Law

by Jeremy Schwartz and Kiah Collier

July 13, 2022, 6:00 am EDT
“We’re at a Crisis Point”: NY Attorney General Hearing Spotlights Child Mental Health Care Failures

by Abigail Kramer and Gabriel Poblete, THE CITY

June 23, 2022, 12:30 pm EDT
New York State Failed to Provide Legally Required Mental Health Care to Kids, Lawsuit Claims

by Abigail Kramer, THE CITY

March 31, 2022, 1:30 pm EDT
Cuomo Set Out to “Transform” Mental Health Care for Kids. Now They Can’t Get Treatment.

by Abigail Kramer, THE CITY, photography by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica

March 28, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
In Men, It’s Parkinson’s. In Women, It’s Hysteria.

by David Armstrong

August 23, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
University of Illinois at Chicago Missed Warning Signs of Research Going Awry, Letters Show

by Jodi S. Cohen

March 20, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Illinois Regulators Are Investigating a Psychiatrist Whose Research With Children Was Marred by Misconduct

by Jodi S. Cohen

December 12, 2018, 5:00 am EST
He Said He Faked Mental Illness to Avoid Prison. Now, Accused in 2 Killings, He’s Sent Back to a State Hospital.

by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise

September 24, 2018, 4:39 pm EDT
Steve Cohen Is Spending Millions to Help Veterans. Why Are People Angry?

by Isaac Arnsdorf

August 3, 2018, 5:00 am EDT
Documents Raise New Concerns About Lithium Study on Children

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 3, 2018, 5:00 am EDT
The $3 Million Research Breakdown

by Jodi S. Cohen

April 26, 2018, 4:00 am EDT
Oregon Doctors Warned That a Killer and Rapist Would Likely Attack Again. Then the State Released Him.

by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise

April 25, 2018, 5:30 am EDT