Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why #Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
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Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
medmastodon
If you've got a follow notification from me but thought you already followed me/I you - our old instance got shut down recently so I've made a new account.
Hope to see you back in the feed/follows! 🙏
#MedMastodon #NewAccount #FollowThursday
#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!
I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃
I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.
I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!
My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.
I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here 
#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon
Edited 261d ago
As a bit of a different one, I have just had an e-mail from Nick who founded and setup #MedMastodon after I offered to take over the site following it's short notice closure just before the new year, he has come back now to confirm he's happy for me to take on the running the maintenance of the site and has looped in the team from Masto.Host to progress this.
I'm hoping that means we can get the site back up and running in the not too distant future and I'll look to get it migrated over to the same infrastructure that we use for MastodonApp.UK and Universeodon.com to hopefully give some better flexibility for growth and benefit from the existing work and scale in place.
I'll keep folks updated as and when I hear more and as we progress getting the site back online.
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.
I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
EDIT - Blog post with details: https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
Edited 253d ago
Just as a quick note as well for #MedMastodon folks - The instance is going to be staying up longer term, I have no intention to just shut the instance down after the current subscription expires at the end of the month.
The transfer ended up happening a bit quicker than I had expected (A great thing in this case) but it did mean I was mid way through cooking dinner and working on a customer project when everything started to progress so I haven't quite gotten around to writing something more detailed up in terms of the future of the site but do want to confirm the plan is for it to be sticking around long term now no matter what :)
We're going ahead and adding `miniwa.moe` to our list of suspended servers across #MastodonAppUK #Universeodon and #MedMastodon as there appears to be no active moderation taking place and reports of transphobic behaviour have been ignored by their moderators.
I'm not expecting this to impact the vast majority of folks across our instances but you might see a follower / following drop by 1 or 2.
Just to say, I'm now suspending any #MedMastodon accounts which are still actively posting. The actual cut off when hosting will stop should be the 5th / 6th by the looks of it so there is still some time to migrate accounts.
Any accounts suspended can appeal the suspension if they want to migrate their relationships and I'll get the account restored.
I'll move my Med-Mastodon account in the next couple of days as well.
Hi! Time for an updated #introduction!
I'm Matteo — a geriatrician and researcher.
Professor of Geriatrics (on leave) at the University of Milan, now at WHO working on healthy #ageing and care for older people.
My research focuses on #Frailty and #IntrinsicCapacity, and on preventing the disabling cascade.
Working in #Geriatrics, #PublicHealth, or #aging research? Say "Hi!" and let me know what are you working on👇
Daje #ASRoma fino a quando non ci portano via!
For the #MedMastodon community -
I'm sending out an e-mail now, unfortunately despite repeated attempts since the 5th Jan of this year we've been unable to get control of the domain from the original founder of the site.
With that in mind and to ensure the site does not just fall off the internet without warning in the future, we're announcing the closure of med-mastodon.com and are asking all active and registered users to migrate to a new server as soon as it is practical to do so.
We have a new GoToSocial server setup to allow for imports of historic posts as well as our existing Mastodon servers that folks are more than welcome to join (Details on the e-mail).
We will keep the med-mastodon site running throughout March as a minimum and hopefully everyone will have migrated by this time but we will keep a close eye and if needed can renew the site for an additional month to facilitate migrations.
Sorry for the rubbish news, there is not a whole lot more we can do :(
⚠️ Is your account on the server med-mastodon.com? If so, you need to transfer your account to a different server as soon as possible.
The med-mastodon.com server is closing down on 1st April 2026, and it can take a few days for transfers to fully happen so you need to start it now.
If you want help moving, there's a simple step-by-step non-technical guide at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
You can find good reliable servers to move to at:
I've sent some replies to those I can still see posting here on #MedMastodon but as a reminder.
Med-Mastodon will be closing down at the end of this month. Those that are active here, please see our e-mail from March 1st or the announcement in the web interface for more information and some suggestions on alternative servers to move to.
From April 1st 2026 the site will not be available and any content not migrated before then will be permanently lost.
Edited 174d ago
That's #MedMastodon now suspended by the hosting following our cancellation request.
A very warm welcome to those that were on #MedMastodon that have made the jump over here to #FediMedi (Yes, you can tell I had such a creative naming scheme when I launched the new site).
We're running #GoToSocial which is new for me and has been a really good learning activity in itself, I'm still getting used to how everything works.
The instance (As far as I can see!) should allow folks to request accounts here which will allow me to make sure we aren't rapidly flooded by spam, the same restrictions we have on our two other Mastodon servers.
We're rocking a 2000 character limit at the moment.
I won't be super active in posting from this account, it's primarily a way for me to manage and administer the instance, you can follow @wild1145 for my general day to day ramblings!
Hello 👋
I need your help! We need as many signatures on this community letter as possible! Anyone in the USA can sign! Allies needed!
Solve ME & #MEAction are asking State Medical Boards to add ME/CFS questions to national licensing exams.
Doctors need to learn about ME/CFS!
Please sign here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXIoHN1Ej7qadY4fhGF7BZB8dtX7zWul0jugb4sh75Ybl2RA/viewform
There are a few pages (scroll down to click next) but it doesn't take long.
Boosts appreciated!
Thank you ❤️
