Parity in mental health importantDanita Johnson Hughes
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 ...
In the era of managed care, benefit parity may be less able to address selection adverse concerns since health plans can control service use in alternative ways. For a discussion of this issue, see R.G. Frank and T.G. McGuire, "Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care under ...
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 coverage for mental health orsubstance a...
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 illnesses and disorders affect many people around the world annually, but unfortunately infrastructures and systems are not in place to adequately address these issues as much as they are for somatic diseases and ailments. Mental Health Parity Law seeks to equalize and improve available and ac...
Issued jointly by the Department of Health and Human Sevices, the Department of Labor, and the Treasury, the final rule will increase parity between mental health/substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits in group and individual health plans. ...
Mental Health Policy Econ. 1, 189–198 (1998) The Public Sector and Mental Health Parity: Time for Inclusion Background: In the United States, there is an uneasy division of responsibility for financing mental health care. For most illnesses, employer-sponsored health insurance and the large ...
health insurance lawmental healthIn this Article, I provide additional support for my recent proposal (All Illnesses Are (Not) Created Equal: Reforming Federal Mental Health Insurance Law, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Vol. 49, forthcoming 2012.) to extend federal mental health parity law and ...
The requirement for fiduciaries to certify that they have engaged in a prudent selection and monitoring process for selecting a vendor to perform and document an NQTL comparative analysis The definitions of key terms (including “medical/surgical benefits,”“mental health benefits,” and “substance...