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Institutions, Politics, and Mental Health Parity.
Mental health parity laws require insurers to extend comparable benefits for mental and physical health care. Proponents argue that by placing mental health services alongside physical health services, such laws can help ensure needed treatment and destigmatize mental illness. Opponents counter that such mandates are costly or unnecessary. The authors offer a sociological account of the diffusi...
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Managed care holds the promise of facilitating parity between general medical care and alcohol, drug, and mental health care by reducing expenditures, even while expanding benefits. Limitations in our knowledge of variations in needs and treatment standards for substance use and psychiatric illnesses make such disorders an easy target for management. Costs for behavioral health care services ha...
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The 1996 Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA), which became effective in January 1998, is scheduled to expire in September 2001. This paper examines what the MHPA accomplished and steps toward more comprehensive parity. We explain the strategic and self-reinforcing link of parity with managed behavioral health care and conclude that the current path will be difficult to reverse. The paper ends with ...
متن کاملThe Costs and Effects of Parity for Mental Health
One main goal of this study was to project the costs of providing parity for mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) insurance benefits. We did this by using an actuarial model to predict the premium increases for three benefit options. One option gives full parity, and the other two give partial parity, for MS/SA benefits. Information about the relative costs of parity options can be used by...
متن کاملIssues in mental health care benefits: the costs of mental health parity.
This Issue Brief discusses issues in mental health care benefits. It describes the current state of employment-based mental health benefits and discusses studies and issues regarding full mental health parity. It also includes an analysis of the effect of full mental parity on the uninsured population and the effects of the limited mental health parity provision contained in the VA-HUD appropri...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0019-5545
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.158130