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Some Managed Care Refuses Anorexia Treatment NPR''s Vicky Que reports that patients with chronic conditions like anorexia nervosa which require expensive treatments are most likely to have difficulty getting the care they need under managed care health plans. Anorexics are obsessed with weight gain and starve themselves. The condition requires long term medical and psychological treatment for which many insurers are refusing to pay.

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NPR''s Vicky Que reports that patients with chronic conditions like anorexia nervosa which require expensive treatments are most likely to have difficulty getting the care they need under managed care health plans. Anorexics are obsessed with weight gain and starve themselves. The condition requires long term medical and psychological treatment for which many insurers are refusing to pay.