MENTAL HEALTH PARITY.Kirn, Timothy FClinical Psychiatry News
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...
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Mental Health Parity Bill Passes through Legislation: This Has Been a Historically Momentous Year for Mental Health Coverage as the Legislature Achieved Passage of a Landmark Law to Bring Mental Health Parity Protection to More Than 100 Million Americans Covered by Group Health Insurance Academic ...
health benefits. In 1996 the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) was passed due to the crusade efforts of Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici under the Presidency of Bill Clinton (Frank, Goldman, & McGuire, 2001). The Mental Health Parity act was designed to ensure that large employers that ...
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)...
This Issue Views2,039 Citations0 0 Medical News in Brief April 19, 2024 Emily Harris JAMA.2024;331(18):1526. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.5927 FullText Patients with heart disease as well as anxiety or depression who received mental health treatments tended to have a substantially lower risk...
Key Differences SUGGESTED for you However, the bill approved by the House has some key differences from a similar bill, the Mental Health Parity Act of 2007, S 558, that was passed by the Senate in September 2007. The House bill, for example, mandates that if a health plan offers coverag...
Kathleen Sebelius Announces New Mental Health Parity Requirements for Health InsurersHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Fridaysaid that new requirements...Ferrechio, Susan