I am attending the California Association of Health Plans annual conference this week and thought I would share some of what I am observing. For starters, Howard Khan, CEO of LA Care Health Plan and Chairman of CAHP Board provided a keynote that immediately established the context where health plans are concerned. He pointed to [...]
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 October 20th, 2009 |  Leave a comment |  Tags: Benefits, consumers and families, Employers, evidence-based practices, healthcare, healthcare financing, Healthcare Reform, Insurance, managed care, Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, NCQA, Parity, Parity Regulations, primary care, Public-Private Partnerships, Reform | Advocacy & Education, Funding and Financing, Regulations & Legislation The American Psychological Association (APA) announced today that it supports H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, as the basis for health reform. This action follows the American Medical Association’s (AMA) decision to do the same. The benefits of the bill cited by the APA include: Requiring a “basic benefit package” for all plans in [...] September 25th, 2009 | Leave a comment | Tags: access, behavioral health, behavioral health providers, Benefits, consumers and families, health, healthcare, healthcare financing, Healthcare Reform, homelessness, mental health, Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, psychiatric, public and community mental health, Reform, SAMHSA, substance use disorder, treatment | Advocacy & Education, Funding and Financing, Regulations & Legislation The question of what to do with employee assistance programs or EAP when Parity legislation drastically expands behavioral health coverage is not new. We have been dealing with this question for more than a decade. The questions take on several different flavors: Is it true that mental health and substance abuse coverage will be so [...] September 21st, 2009 | Leave a comment | Tags: behavioral health, consumers and families, EAP, employee assistance program, Employers, ERISA, MBHO, mental health, Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, Parity, suicide | "The Business" of Behavioral Healthcare, Funding and Financing, Plan Design, Policies & Procedures So much of what we’re hearing, reading and considering when it comes to behavioral health parity and health insurance reform is a function of our urban and suburban perceptions of health care. I lived and worked in a rural/frontier state for some time and can recall the difficulties and challenges we faced there and in [...] September 3rd, 2009 | Leave a comment | Tags: access, behavioral health, behavioral health providers, consumers and families, Healthcare Reform, mental health, Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, Parity, public and community mental health, Reform | Funding and Financing, Providers & Networks, Regulations & Legislation While in DC last week, I heard someone quip: “Mental health parity was and continues to be a civil rights concern.” Frankly, while I had always thought of it in terms of equity and fairness as well as a resolution of stigma and discrimination issues, I had not thought often of Parity in terms of [...] |
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