We found that 2 million Oklahomans with commercial insurance face significant barriers to care.
Accessing Behavioral Health Providers Through Private Insurance in Oklahoma
We found that 2 million Oklahomans with commercial insurance face significant barriers to care.
That’s 1 in 5 Oklahoma adults, according to a 2020 prevalence estimate for Oklahomans with any mental illness.
SOURCE: Mental Health America, 2019
Untreated mental illness can lead to loss of productivity, difficulty concentrating and changes in employee morale.
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The rate Oklahomans on private insurance must go out of network to receive inpatient mental health care compared to other inpatient medical care.
Out-of-network care is more expensive, and can be a barrier to treatment. This disparity shows a lack of true parity between mental health care and other care.
SOURCE: Milliman Research Report, 2019
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death 1999-2017 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released December, 2018.