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New Proposed Rules Aim to Tackle Stubborn Mental Health Treatment Barriers

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    Jul 28, 2023

    The federal government on July 25 issued proposals to strengthen the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and ensure that health plans are complying with the mandate of providing fair and equal access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment. JoAnn Volk, the founder and co-director of Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms, says HHS and the Labor and Treasury departments are particularly interested in addressing health plans’ reporting and comparative analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs). 

    The MHPAEA was enacted in October 2008 and built upon the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996, which prohibited large group health plans from having different annual and lifetime limits for mental health and medical/surgical benefits. However, the agencies did not publish final regulations implementing the MHPAEA until November 2013.  

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