Affordable Care Act Expands Mental Health and Substance Use ...

The Affordable Care Act will provide one of the largest expansions of mental health and substance use disorder coverage in a generation.

The ACA at 10: How Has It Impacted Mental Health Care?

Leading up to the ACA, the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) required all ...

The Affordable Care Act Transformation of Substance Use Disorder ...

Third, the ACA extends the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which requires that insurers cover SUD treatment in a no more restrictive way ...

Substance Abuse and the Affordable Care Act | The White House

The ACA includes substance use disorders as one of the ten elements of essential health benefits. This means that all health insurance sold on Health Insurance ...

Affordable Care Act Expands Mental Health and Substance Use ...

The Affordable Care Act builds on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to extend federal parity protections to 62 ...

Affordable Care Act 101: Expanding Mental Health and Addiction ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted March 23, 2010 to expand coverage to 33 million Americans. Expanding Coverage: New law ...

Mental health & substance abuse coverage

... insurance plans cover mental health and substance abuse services as an essential health ... health insurance plans must cover under the Affordable Care Act. These ...

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) - CMS

MHPAEA preserves the MHPA protections and added significant new protections, such as extending the parity requirements to substance use ...

Effects of the ACA on Health Care Coverage for Adults with ...

The Medicaid expansion and Health Insurance Marketplace exchange provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have the potential to increase insurance coverage ...

Fact Sheet: Mental Health Care and the Affordable Care Act

Mental health and substance use disorder benefits were classified as essential health benefits, and became mandatory within all plans in all ...

HHS's New Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefit ...

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA or Parity Law) requires most health plans or health insurers that offer ...

The Affordable Care Act and Expanding Mental Health Coverage

The Affordable Care Act builds on the Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act to expand mental health and substance use disorder benefits.

How Repealing and Replacing the ACA Could Reduce Access to ...

Affordable Care Act Will Expand Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits and Parity Protections for 62 Million. Americans. Washington: Office of the ...

Medicaid Expansion and mental health treatment: Evidence from the ...

The dependent coverage provision of the ACA has been found to improve self-reported health, reduce body mass index, decrease substance misuse, ...

Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) prohibits health plans from imposing barriers on access to mental health or substance use disorder ...

How Obamacare improved mental health coverage

An estimated 1.2 million people with substance use disorders gained health coverage as a result of Medicaid expansion in its first few years.

How the Affordable Care Act and Mental Health Parity and Addiction ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will expand coverage of mental health and substance use disorder benefits and federal parity ...

ACA Repeal Would Jeopardize Treatment for Millions with ...

Repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could eliminate access to behavioral health ... mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs).

How the Affordable Care Act and Mental Health Parity and Addiction ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will expand coverage of mental health and substance use disorder benefits and federal parity protections ...

Building on the ACA to Address Substance Use Disorders & Mental ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), 12 years old this week, achieved landmark advances in access to treatment for addiction and mental illness in ...