The article focuses on the changes to the Mental Health Parity Act (MHP). It states that the MHP forbid group health plans and their insurance companies from enforcing particular special boundaries on benefits provided for mental health and substance abuse treatments not applicable to general medical...
Important deadlines for compliance with the new rules To learn more about the finalMHPAEA regulations, read ourOn the Subject,Landmark Mental Health Parity Final Rule: What Plan Sponsors and Insurers Need to Know.
Non-quantitative treatment limitations in the mental health parity regulations: How can “different” still be parity? - Journal of Substance Abuse TreatmentThe Interim Final Rules implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 went into effect on July 1, 2010. This paper ...
Parity is Paramount: Understanding the New Mental Health Parity Final RegsIRS, Treasury, DOL, EBSA, HHS, and CMS have jointly issued final mental health and substance use disorder regulations with a focus on improving mental health coverage in group health plans and insured plans ...
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 ...
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 health plans to cover treatments for mental health and substance abuse conditions in parity wit...
Managed Care State Laws and Regulations The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) -The law amended the 1996 Mental Health Parity Act by extending the parity requirements to include substance use disorder benefits. In addition, the MHPAEA requires parity with respect to all financi...
Final Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act rules have major changes for plan years starting in 2025 and 2026.
The act expands on the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, which required parity in lifetime benefits for mental and physical disorders and was not applicable to substance use disorder benefits. SUGGESTED for you According to the Department of Health and Human Services release, the new law applies...
In addition to enhancing mental health coverage under group health plans (an area of particular focus for the U.S. Department of Labor given themental health parity rules), retailers are finding creative ways to offer mental health and related benefits, including: ...