{"id":694475,"date":"2026-06-09T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694475\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:36:10","slug":"after-years-of-failed-treatments-this-psych-program-finally-worked-now-her-family-owes-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694475\/","title":{"rendered":"After years of failed treatments, this psych program finally worked. Now her family owes $1 million."},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the program, Larry said, his daughter required constant monitoring at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe basically took shifts where I would watch her through the day,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a little bit heavier of a sleeper than Kandy, so she would take the night and we would have to check on her every few minutes to make sure she was OK and alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

While other treatment programs have targeted certain aspects of Levasseur\u2019s medical issues, the Sheppard Pratt program seemed to be the only one that addressed them collectively, her parents said. <\/p>\n

\"TheLarry, Rachel, Kandy and Ellie Lavesseur.Courtesy Levasseur Family<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly believe that if Rachel wouldn\u2019t have gone to The Retreat this last year, she would not be alive today,\u201d Kandy said.<\/p>\n

Exhausting all options<\/p>\n

The Levasseurs knew the specialized program was not in their insurance company\u2019s network of covered providers, but they say CareFirst representatives led them to believe the company could make an exception, given that their daughter had seen little to no improvement at other treatment programs over the past seven years. <\/p>\n

In situations where no in-network providers are available, CareFirst will sometimes enter into what\u2019s called a \u201csingle case agreement,\u201d which allows a patient to apply their in-network benefits to an out-of-network provider. Larry said several company representatives told him over the phone that if the family could prove Rachel was getting care she couldn\u2019t get anywhere else, the insurance company would likely cover the cost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the program, Larry said, his daughter required constant monitoring at home. \u201cWe basically took shifts where I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-694475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694475","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=694475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}