Resources to Fight Weight-Based Insurance and Treatment Denials in Eating Disorders Care and Beyond

About this episode

Ragen Chastain discusses resources for appealing weight-based insurance denials in eating disorder care.

I’m very excited to announce the culmination of a project I’ve been working on for Project HEAL. They are an incredible organization that works to break down systemic, healthcare, and financial barriers to eating disorder healing. They already had a series of templates for insurance appeals and they reached out to me to create a blog post and templates to appeal weight-based denials and failure to accommodate. Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Ragen Chastain

Topics covered

• eating disorders
• insurance appeals
• healthcare barriers
• weight-based discrimination
• systemic issues

Keywords

• eating disorders
• insurance
• healthcare
• weight-based denials
• Project HEAL
• appeal templates
• systemic barriers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Project HEAL

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