Mental Health Parity Compliance and EnforcementMcKinney, MatthewBenefits Quarterly
Mental health parity compliance We test health plan compliance with the quantitative requirements of MHPAEA. Quantitative testing checks that financial requirements and quantitative treatment limits for mental health/substance use disorder benefits are no more restrictive than predominant levels for medical/su...
On September 9, 2024, the Biden administration issuedmuch-anticipated final regulationsunder the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). The rules implement a host of complicated new compliance requirements for sponsors and issuers of health plans, instituting new obligations to collect...
Mental Health Parity Act: A Compliance Wake-Up Call Browse the requirements of the MHPAEA. The MHPAEA introduced a parity requirement, indicating that plans and insurers that provide mental health or substance use disorder benefits in addition to medical surgical benefits cannot imp...
May 28, 2025, 09:00 ETBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Become First to Earn URAC's Mental Health Parity Accreditation URAC, the nation's leading independent health care accreditor, today announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota ...
Congress passed the Metal Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (the Parity Act) based upon its perception that employers who sponsor group health plans were improperly discriminating against mental health benefit coverage. Congress intended that the Parity Act would cause group h...
Mental Health Parity and Equity Addiction Act Compliance for Employer Health Plans Learn more about how the MHPAEA (Pub. L. No. 110-343) and related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 111-148) generally prevent health plans and policies from imposing...
But here’s the reality: The DMHC’s method of ensuring compliance is to conduct “desk audits” of providers every three years — essentially, asking the health companies to send in their own data on patient visits and staffing levels, then having the department comb the results to see if...
Congress first passed the Mental Health Parity Act in 1996. Lawmakers amended the law in 2008, and again in 2020, partly for the purpose of giving federal regulators more tools to enforce compliance. The administration cast the new rules as building on other mental health initiatives, including ...
The new policy is part of a broader push by Biden to improvemental health carein the United States -- an issue he raised during one of his State of the Union speeches. The proposed rule, which Biden announced on Tuesday afternoon, will attempt to enforce compl...