Currently, an estimated sixty-three percent of elderly Americans have an unmet need for mental health services. In this note, Brian LaFratta explores the negative impact that the Mental Health Parity Act has upo
An interesting finding by Huskamp and Iglehart (2016) is that between the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there should be a rise in people with mental illness seeking services, however, services are underutilized more than ever (Huskamp & Iglehart, 2016)...
Mental Health Parity ACT 作者:United States General Accounting Office 页数:74 ISBN:9781234414252 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价
The House of Representatives has followed the Senate in passing long-awaited mental health parity legislation. The House of Representatives passed a version of the bill passed unanimously in September, and members of Congress will have to meet to reconcile the differences between the two bills. Both...
Health Parity Act. Final Rules Issued On Mental Health Parity Act.Final Rules Issued On Mental Health Parity Act.The article focuses on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, enacted in October 2008 in the U.S.MillerStephen
Patrick J. Kennedy:As the author of the MHPAEA [Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act],3we don’t talk about mental health as just a universal right; we liken it to a medical civil right because historically mental health has been treated separately and unequally from overall health...
Only two years after the defeat of the health care bill, President Bill Clinton signed, with Hillary’s backing and advocacy, the Mental Health Parity Act in 1996. That law was extremely limited in scope. It secured the same lifetime and annual dollar limits to mental health coverage as for...
Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 作者:United States Congress Senate Committee 页数:24 ISBN:9781240621538 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价
MHPAEA amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act), and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Federal Register, 2013). The MHPAEA is an extension of the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, which prohibited annual or aggregate ...
Mental health “parity” The federal Affordable Care Act created “parity” for mental health care, requiring insurance companies to provide their customers the same coverage for mental health treatment as they do for other care. But the law does not affect negotiations between hospitals and insuranc...