Ellen Eldridge/GPB, Author at The Current

Insurance company practices, such as low pay, high education costs, and provider burnout, are driving therapists into private practice, leaving many Georgians without access to mental health care.

Author Archives: Ellen Eldridge/GPB

Can’t find a therapist on your insurance plan? That could be a violation of mental health parity law

Georgia nurses push for legislative support to address violence, burnout

Measles case reported in Fulton County, possible exposure near Georgia State University

$20 million in fines issued for insurers violating Georgia’s Mental Health Parity Act

Warnock questions RFK Jr.’s commitment to reducing health care costs in Georgia

Poor access to mental health care leaves Georgia children who need a psychiatrist in the lurch

Patient groups in Georgia want antivirals available at no cost for high risk of severe COVID-19

Georgia remembers pioneering first lady. Rosalynn Carter dies at 96.

Dialing 988 for mental health crisis reaches its first year. Here’s why you may not have heard

Georgia study about grief shows how a person can die from a broken heart

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