Teen eating disorders have never been this rampant — or this severe. Freizinger added that many eating disorder specialists don’t accept Medicaid or don’t accept insurance at all, which can make treatment access all the more difficult for underrepresented minority groups, especially Black and Hispanic populations who are more likely to have Medicaid or lack health insurance altogether than white Americans. Walter Kaye, director of the eating disorders program at the University of California, San Diego, suspects broader criteria may have played into the increase