Coverage of marital and family therapy by managed care and commercial health plans.

The article discusses the coverage of family and marital therapy by managed care organizations in the U.S. in 2006. While managed care organizations generally recognize family and marital therapy as a vital modality in the treatment of certain individuals, they need to enforce coverage rules when managing the health plans of other entities. Thus, they deny family and marital therapy as non-covered services for other patients in some cases.