Mental Health Parity [electronic resource] : Federal and State Action and Economic Impact.
Summarizes the economic forces that explain persistent limitations on mental health insurance coverage in conventional, fee-for-service health plans. Discusses key issues relating to the feasibility of parity under managed care, and reviews State mental health parity legislation; the Mental Health P...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Summarizes the economic forces that explain persistent limitations on mental health insurance coverage in conventional, fee-for-service health plans. Discusses key issues relating to the feasibility of parity under managed care, and reviews State mental health parity legislation; the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996; and the full-parity legislation, H.R. 1402, the Senator Paul Wellstone Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act, reintroduced in the 109th Congress. |
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| Item Description: | Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. |
| Physical Description: | 25 p., digital, PDF file. |