The Medicare mental health coverage gap: How licensed professional counselors navigate Medicare-ineligible provider status

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dc.contributor.authorFullen, Matthew C.en
dc.contributor.authorWiley, Jonathan D.en
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Amy A.en
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-07T16:03:22Zen
dc.date.available2020-01-07T16:03:22Zen
dc.date.issued2019en
dc.date.updated2020-01-07T16:03:19Zen
dc.description.abstractThis interpretative phenomenological analysis explored licensed professional counselors’ experiences of turning away Medicare beneficiaries because of the current Medicare mental health policy. Researchers used semi-structured interviews to explore the client-level barriers created by federal legislation that determines professional counselors as Medicare-ineligible providers. An in-depth presentation of one superordinate theme, ineffectual policy, along with the emergent themes confounding regulations, programmatic inconsistencies, and impediment to care, illustrates the proximal barriers Medicare beneficiaries experience when actively seeking out licensed professional counselors for mental health care. Licensed professional counselors’ experiences indicate that current Medicare provider regulations interfere with mental health care accessibility and availability for Medicare-insured populations. Implications for advocacy are discussed.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extentPages 310-323en
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.orcidFullen, Matthew [0000-0002-6534-6622]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/96308en
dc.identifier.volume9en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.titleThe Medicare mental health coverage gap: How licensed professional counselors navigate Medicare-ineligible provider statusen
dc.title.serialThe Professional Counseloren
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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