Stronger State Insurance Laws Improve Mental Health Care Access for Kids
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Aug 16, 2024
Children and adolescents were much more likely to access necessary mental and behavioral health (MBH) services if they lived in states that mandate insurance coverage for mental health care, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open.
The study is based on responses from almost 30,000 caregivers of kids and adolescents ages 6 to 17 years with mental and behavioral health conditions in the National Survey of Children’s Health and State Mental Health Insurance Laws Dataset (SMHILD) from 2016 to 2019. The comprehensiveness of state MBH insurance laws was defined by the SMHILD score and categorized as 0 to 2, 3, 4, and 5 to 7.
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