How does one find the proper help??

I just have a simple question... Accompanied by a statement about things.

So how is it that I have fairly good insurance coverage. But they won't by ANY means cover anything to do with Eating Disorder treatment... Not even partial hospitalization programs... So how is it that people who have no insurance, or even health insurance that doesn't cover as well as mine normally does, can get in patient treatment?? I'm at a loss... I am doing my best. But I have yet to be given the right tools that are needed in order to accomplish the goal of keeping myself in recovery. Anyways. That's my question... And my statement at the same time. Any insight is much appreciated!!

Insurance companies can be stinky. Understatement. I don't exactly know...when I was inpatient, I was covered under my parents insurance, but even then, I know they footed a large amount of the bill.
I feel you on the insurance. I also have "good" insurance, and they will not cover even THERAPY. JERKS. I don't get it.

I don't have any insight, I am so sorry. but welcome to PC, and i hope you keep posting.

I have Medicaid and it covers inpatient ED treatment, but nothing else. I pay out of pocket for my dietician and therapist. It is funny because Medicaid does cover part of my DBT therapy and group. They will also pay for PHP for mental health. Ask if your insurance will cover residential treatment as opposed to inpatient or vice versa. Sometimes they cover one but not the other so you have to be specific. I am in the positition of needing to be rehospitalized, but as of right now there are no inpatient hospitals in my area. We are simply waiting for one to open up but don't know when that will be.
Anyway, keep coming here. There are lots of helpful supportive people here.

I didn't have insurance that covered the inpatient treatment either....& medicare didn't cover it either.....many times the treatment centers won't accept the insurance that is there either....so it can go either way.

My pdoc at the time had an in with the Radar Institute in California when it was at Washington Memorial hospital (no longer there)..but they had funds that covered people who desperately needed hospitalization & treatment.....it covered the hospitalization & the treatment but it didn't cover the pdoc, the psychologist, or any of the medical tests they forced you to have.......so I ended up with a huge bill anyway that ended up going to collection......oh well...nothing I could do about it.....we were having a hard enough time just surviving after I no longer had my engineering career.

You can look for treatment centers that have funds that provide for the treatment. Unfortunately from my experience, I hated the treatment center & in some ways it made me worse not better & I still have issues with things like sustacal, the nutritional supplements they forced us to drink if we didn't finish ALL the meal they made us eat.

Also, my anorexia issues even though they dropped me to a very LOW weight which was very unhealthy & kept landing me in the medical hospital after I got out of the treatment was initiated by prozac which caused excessive weight loss for me along with the Wellbutrin.....but I was also suicidal & so when the weight loss started, I just grabbed onto it in hopes that I would not live......which also created a strange situation in the ED treatment center having to be 1 on 1 for over quite awhile.

Stress & trauma are also huge triggers for excessive weight loss for me & there are many treatment centers that don't treat anorexia that isn't based completely on body image issues.......so it was basically a useless experience for me as they did nothing to help me deal with where I was psychologically at the time & tried to shove me into their defined box.