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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

When the mandates of the Affordable Care Act hit the marketplace in 2013, for example, insurance brokers nationwide were challenged with delivering additional value to their customers to offset rising healthcare costs for employers. A strategy for success.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? Society is saying, “Wow, we’re learning so much from brain research.”

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

Mad in America

Actually, the reader will learn that the vast majority of health problems arise not from organic disease but from psychosocial- and behavior-caused health problems that bring most of us to our physicians. I have felt that behavioral health was always something of a stepchild in the health insurance industry.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. There is this growing grassroots resistance.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

Mad in America

One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. But critics contend that treatments provided in research settings are artificial.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

Mad in America

His passion for teaching and learning has led to the creation of the True Psychiatry Network and the development of a mentoring program designed to address the most frequent challenges related to psychiatric training. Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. I was still blind.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

Mad in America

The current challenge is to begin to integrate these into a viable model of community-based and peer-led mental health support that can function outside of the institutional framework of regulation, licensing, insurance, professional norms, and so forth. In short, the same effects appear regardless of the character of the intervention.