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Enforcing Mental Health Parity


Enforcing Mental Health Parity: State Options to Improve Access

Maryland is one of 10 states that works to ensure compliance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act for their individual and small-group ...

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

Prior to the passage of MHPAEA, the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA) provided that large group health plans cannot impose annual or ...

FY 2022 MHPAEA Enforcement Fact Sheet - U.S. Department of Labor

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) was signed into law in 2008 to limit financial requirements and treatment limitations on benefits for ...

Mental Health Parity at a Crossroads - KFF

CMS and state Medicaid agencies oversee compliance activity for federal Medicaid parity rules. States generally are responsible to determine ...

Mental Health Parity - Psychiatry.org

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (federal parity law) was enacted in 2008 and requires insurance coverage for mental health conditions

FY 2022 MHPAEA Enforcement Fact Sheet - CMS

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) was signed into law in 2008 to limit financial requirements and treatment limitations on benefits ...

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 ...

Enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act

State insurance departments enforce the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) for large fully insured employer-sponsored ...

Mental Health Parity | NAMI

Additionally, states have enacted parity legislation to expand protections and/or improve compliance and enforcement of the federal laws. These efforts have ...

New mental health parity laws are already under threat - STAT News

The ink had scarcely dried on new federal rules for enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 when U.S. ...

Approaches in Implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction ...

Finally, state officials described collaboration with government agencies, advocacy groups, providers, and consumers as an essential aspect of enforcing parity ...

Mental Health Parity - APA Services

The lack of clear enforcement authority, tools, and resources has made it difficult to fully achieve the goals of federal and state parity law. Analyses have ...

Factors Affecting State-Level Enforcement of the Federal Mental ...

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) requires coverage for mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) to benefits be no more ...

States Struggle to Ensure Equal Access to Behavioral Health ...

More federal support for parity requirements is needed. Funding from federal grants has been critical in state enforcement efforts, including ...

New Federal Rules Seek To Strengthen Mental Health Parity

The federal government and state departments of insurance share the responsibility of enforcing MHPAEA across the plans they regulate. The EBSA, ...

Enforcing Mental Health Parity

Nearly all insured Americans are now entitled to receive their mental health and substance use benefits at the same level as their benefits for other medical ...

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Treasury ...

Enacted in 2008, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act aims to make sure people seeking mental health and substance use disorder ...

Mental Health Parity Compliance Remains a Key Focus for Federal ...

The report emphasizes that MHPAEA is a “top enforcement priority.” EBSA noted that it has increased staffing and training related to MHPAEA.

U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Treasury ...

The report includes information that suggests health plans and health insurance issuers are failing to deliver parity for mental health and substance-use ...

Mental Health Insurance Parity - The Council of State Governments

and enforcement efforts, and identify future policy avenues. • Key Findings: States continue to address gaps in parity through legislation and through ...