{"id":8044,"date":"2019-06-19T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2019-06-21T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:19:57","slug":"new-behavioral-health-care-service-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/new-behavioral-health-care-service-available\/","title":{"rendered":"New Behavioral Health Care Service Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking care of your mental health is an important part of your overall well-being. Health New England is working to make access to behavioral health services a lot easier. Effective July 1, 2019, as a Health New England member, you can take advantage of a new Behavioral Health Care benefit through Teladoc<sup style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: 0; vertical-align: 5px;\">\u00ae<\/sup>.*<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the general medical services you already have through Teladoc, you have access to high quality virtual care for a wide variety of behavioral health issues. Get confidential counseling seven days a week for conditions like depression, anxiety, stress, grief, PTSD, marital or family issues, and much more by phone or video.<\/p>\n<p>Teladoc doesn\u2019t offer a crisis hotline. Appointments must be scheduled. Choose to see a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or therapist and establish an ongoing relationship \u2013 all without having to travel to or wait at a provider\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Copays for Teladoc Behavioral Health services vary by plan and follow your mental health\/behavioral health benefit cost share amounts, so be sure to check your member materials and your Health New England ID card.**<\/p>\n<p>To register, log into the Health New England member portal at <a href=\"https:\/\/my.healthnewengland.org\">my.healthnewengland.org<\/a> and click on the Teladoc icon.<\/p>\n<p>You can also register and request a Teladoc consultation by calling 1-800-Teladoc (835-2362), going to <a href=\"https:\/\/member.teladoc.com\/hne\">Teladoc.com\/HNE<\/a>, or downloading the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teladoc.com\/mobile\/\">Teladoc mobile app<\/a>. Be sure to complete your Teladoc registration ahead of time before you actually need behavioral health or medical care. Registration takes approximately 15 minutes per member\/dependent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Applies to fully funded groups and Health Connector members.<\/em> <em>Not all employer groups participate in the Teladoc benefit. Please check your plan materials for details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**<em>For high deductible health plans (HDHP), visits are billed as follows and are applied to your deductible: Psychologist, licensed clinical social worker, counselor or therapist &#8211; $80 or less\/session; Psychiatrist &#8211; $160 or less\/initial visit; Psychiatrist &#8211; $90 or less\/ongoing visit. Once deductible is met, then mental health copay applies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking care of your mental health is an important part of your overall well-being. Health New England is working to make access to behavioral health services a lot easier. Effective July 1, 2019, as a Health New England member, you can take advantage of a new Behavioral Health Care benefit through Teladoc\u00ae.* Similar to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[415,613,280,430],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-behavioral-health","tag-mental-health","tag-teladoc","tag-telehealth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/teladoc_web.jpg?fit=700%2C247&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-25K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8106,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions\/8106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}