Your body and mind are
equally important and now
equally covered.

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If you have health insurance in Georgia, you now have mental health and substance use disorder treatment coverage


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WHAT changed?
  • In 2022, Georgia passed a law requiring public and private health insurance plans to cover mental health and substance use services at the same level as physical health.​
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WHY did it change?
  • Access to services is improved when health insurance pays for mental health and substance use services.​ ​
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HOW does this affect you & your family?
  • Despite these efforts to improve mental health and substance use services access, consumers still experience high levels of unfair denials. Learn more about what you can do if you think your insurance company has unfairly denied your coverage.

Have your rights been violated?

  • Higher payments: Your payments for mental health services are higher than for your primary care doctor.

  • Limitations: You are limited in how many times you can see a mental health care provider, but have no such limits for physical health care.

  • Higher costs for medicine: You pay more for prescription medications to treat mental health than for physical health.

  • Needing permission: Your insurance company requires permission to continue mental health treatments, but not physical health treatments.

  • Forced to take less expensive treatment: Your insurance company requires that you try a less expensive treatment option before covering the treatment your mental health provider recommended.

  • Separate deductible: Your insurance plan has a separate deductible for mental health services.

    • Submit a complaint now!


    Contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you are experiencing mental health-related distress or are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support.

    Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org