New Rule Demands Parity for Mental Health CoverageWASHINGTON - It's final: Health insurance companies must covermental illness and substance abuse...By The
Reports the approval of the 1998 Mental Health Parity Act in the United States. Provisions under the act; Epidemiology of mental illness in the country; Opinion of Michael M. Faenza, president of Na...
Parity in mental health coverage: the goal of equal access to mental health treatment under the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 and the Mental Health Equi... Parity in mental health coverage: the goal of equal access to mental health treatment under the mental health parity act of 1996 and...
The term “parity” for health benefits was first coined in reference to equal coverage for mental health and substance abuse services. Historically, traditional benefit designs covered mental health and substance abuse services with a higher cost sharing (e.g., 50% coinsurance) and “inside” lim...
Parity of Insurance Coverage for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment The article focuses on the move of the House and Senate in the U.S. in passing the versions of legislation to require health plans in covering mental healt... S Barstow - 《Counseling Today》 被引量: 0发表: 2008...
Nonetheless, although it has yet to achieve parity with other medical services, health insurance coverage for mental health services has improved over time. Because the recent enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA") appears to have filled the parity gaps left by the...
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 ...
Legislation to establish parity under Medicare reintroduced.Reports on the reintroduction of a legislation to establish parity coverage for mental health treatment under Medicare in the U.S. as of April 7, 2003. Expansion of beneficiary access to community based services and mental health ...
congress passes mental health parity bill:widespread support health insurers would be required to provide comparable levels of coverage for mental health and physical health issues under new legislation passed by bot... BM Kuehn - 《Jama》 被引量: 0发表: 2008年 ...
MENTAL HEALTH: BETTER BENEFITS WON'T BREAK THE BANK S. Surgeon General, will suffer from a mental disorder in the course of a year. Advocates for the mentally ill have pushed hard for parity in the coverage of mental illness and other ailments. But opponents have warned that parity... P...