{"id":129448,"date":"2025-09-03T10:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129448\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:14:19","slug":"mvp-reaches-settlement-with-ny-attorney-general-over-mental-health-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129448\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP reaches settlement with NY attorney general over mental health coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured a settlement with MVP health plan over what she calls a &#8220;ghost network&#8221; of mental health providers.<\/p>\n<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured a settlement with MVP health plan over what she calls a \u201cghost network\u201d of mental health providers.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement comes after investigators found that none of the providers listed as \u201caccepting new patients\u201d in MVP\u2019s directory were actually available.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general said that left some members without care or forced to pay out of pocket for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, MVP will pay restitution to impacted members, adopt an industry-leading verification system, check provider listings every 90 days, pay $250,000 in penalties and fees and commit to expanding its mental health provider network.<\/p>\n<p>An independent administrator will monitor MVPs compliance over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/tag\/mvp\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MVP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured a settlement with MVP health plan over what she calls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260,19183,82146],"class_list":["post-129448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-mvp","tag-new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}