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The Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act-Are you ready for Parity?

Next week’s webinar will offer payors a roadmap to readiness. Register here:

http://behavioralhealthcentral.com/index.php/Event-Registration/vmchk.ht

Parity Legislation Compliance Webinar Series Part 1: Getting Ready for Mental Health Parity Wednesday, December 9 at 2 p.m.

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction [...]

Parity Receives DOL Boost: Employer Benefit Plans Cannot Evade The Law

Those of you with no legal background, brace yourselves for this opening line: The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) – which is housed within the Department of Labor and oversees ERISA – through their Office of Health Plan Standards and Compliance Assistance, states that Parity will be subject to the “anti-abuse” proposed rule – 29 C.F.R. [...]

Health Plans Face Daunting Tasks. Parity Not High On List of To-Dos

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 [...]

Are Health Reform and Health Plans Mutually Exclusive?

Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee will take up the fate of at least one reform proposal. On the eve of that vote, the American Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) released a report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) demonstrating the bill will wind up costing more than its authors are admitting. Talking heads are exploding in an uproar [...]

Reform Package Gains Steam – Stigma Dealt Another in a Series of Crushing Blows

The Senate Finance Committee has wrapped up its debate over the most significant changes in the U.S. health-care system in decades. In the process, they have made the bill more attractive to Republicans and moderate Blue Dog Democrats by making some crucial concessions. Namely, they have agreed to eliminate the legislation’s most punitive taxes and [...]

Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) & Parity: What Should Employers Do?

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 [...]

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The Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act-Are you ready for Parity?

Parity Receives DOL Boost: Employer Benefit Plans Cannot Evade The Law

Health Plans Face Daunting Tasks. Parity Not High On List of To-Dos

Are Health Reform and Health Plans Mutually Exclusive?

Reform Package Gains Steam – Stigma Dealt Another in a Series of Crushing Blows

Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) & Parity: What Should Employers Do?

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