The AMA came out in support of the Biden-Harris Administration's final rule on mental health parity, while AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association argue that it will increase costs and negatively affect access to care.
In submitted comments to the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor, AHIP argued that the proposed mental health parity rule would not expand access to mental health support. It believes the rule should be withdrawn altogether.
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A new proposed rule by the Biden-Harris Administration would require health plans to improve their analyses of their mental health benefits and make clear that they cannot engage in practices that make it more difficult for members to access mental health support compared to physical health.
Our analysis demonstrates that CMS’s coverage processes for breakthrough devices demonstrate product class and disease state disparities. These disparities contradict mental health parity statute, CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure’s focus on equity, and President Biden’s charge to improve brain health.
Acting Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security Ali Khawar vows to do whatever is necessary, including suggesting Congress authorize fines, to finally bring insurers into compliance with the 2008 mental health parity law.
Patrick Kennedy and the Kennedy Forum hosted “The New Frontier on Mental Health and Addiction,” an event that served as a call to action to push for meaningful change for the millions of Americans living with mental health conditions, substance abuse, or addiction
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Meiram Bendat, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who has filed several lawsuits against insurers alleging violations of the parity law, voiced skepticism about how effective a task force might be.
According to a 2015 report, some Kaiser staffers told mental health patients that they were not entitled to long-term individual therapy ever.