Mental Health Insurance Reform Task Force
MHIRTF is a national coalition of mental health providers using legal, regulatory, and collective strategies to confront systemic abuse in insurance and payment systems. We enforce mental health parity laws, hold insurers accountable for denials, discrimination, and monopolization, and build the power needed to reshape how care is valued and reimbursed.
Strategic enforcement. Collective pressure. Structural reform.
Get InvolvedWhat We Do
MHIRTF confronts the structural insurance failures that drive providers out of networks and deny clients the care they are legally entitled to receive. Our work focuses on parity violations, inadequate reimbursement, vertical consolidation, and the administrative tactics used to exhaust providers and discourage access.
Legislation and Enforcement
Strategic focus on non-enforcement of parity violations. We track bills, analyze enforcement gaps, and support legislative advocacy at state and federal levels.
Provider Tools and Resources
Accessible complaint templates, grievance guides, and practical resources for providers navigating denials, clawbacks, and credentialing barriers.
Community Mobilization
Monthly national meetings, state roundtables, and ongoing virtual gatherings where providers share experiences and build collective strategy.
Education and Research
Policy analysis, public education, and documentation of systemic patterns, so providers, clients, and communities can understand and challenge the systems harming them.
What appears on paper as billing and administrative policy often operates in practice as a system of access restriction, affecting treatment timelines, coverage continuity, provider retention, and long-term community care capacity. MHIRTF exists to challenge those conditions directly.
Join a Subcommittee
There are multiple ways to engage. Attend our monthly national MHIRTF meetings, join a subcommittee, become a state lead or co-lead, or help spread the movement.
Education Subcommittee
Build clarity and power through shared knowledge.
- Write or review advocacy materials
- Translate policy into accessible tools
- Help co-lead trainings
Legal Subcommittee
Help shape legislation that protects care, not corporate profit.
- Track bills and enforcement gaps
- Co-write draft legislation
- Monitor litigation and enforcement trends
- Pressure agencies to enforce parity
Innovation Subcommittee
Design what does not exist yet.
- Explore cooperative care models
- Connect with providers testing alternatives
- Co-create ethical care infrastructure
Become a State Lead
MHIRTF has provider involvement in more than 40 states. State leads coordinate local organizing, represent their state in national strategy conversations, and help build the movement from the ground up. If you are interested in leading or co-leading for your state, get in touch through the Get Involved form.
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