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US Lawmakers are considering a bill this month that would require insurance companies to expand coverage for mental health treatment.

Advocates say patients often go without treatment for psychiatric illnesses because they can’t pay for it – even when they have health insurance.

In New Hampshire – doctors and health officials say that inadequate insurance coverage is just one of many barriers to psychiatric treatment.

Child psychiatrists, they say, are also in short supply – particularly in rural areas.

But one project out of Dartmouth Medical School aims to address that shortage with an innovative approach.

NHPR’s Dianne Finch has more.