Title: Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated : NPR
Headings: Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated
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Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated
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Content: Patients have lots of problems. There are lots of treatment guidelines out there. So we're balancing lots of stuff when we see them. SILBERNER: There are what Klinkman calls financial disincentives in the way insurers pay for mental health care. Dr. KLINKMAN: It makes more sense for me financially, if I'm being paid in typical ways, to see six or seven people with sore throats in an hour than treat people with depression. SILBERNER: But many patients want to be treated by their primary care doctors, like Bob, who didn't want us to use his last name. He's a patient of Dr. Klinkman.