Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota and North Dakota First to Earn URAC’s Mental Health Parity Accreditation

URAC is proud to announce that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota are…

White House Releases Health Plan Parity Requirements for the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act

The Biden White House released on September 9, 2024 its final “Requirements Related to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act”,…

New Parity Rule Proposed by the Biden Administration

Policy & Medicine published a news article about the Mental Health Parity and Addition Equity Act (MHPAEA), because the Biden Administration proposed…

White House Supports Mental Health Parity

The Biden administration is proposing a new rule to hold health insurers more accountable for ensuring that covered patients receive necessary mental…

Mental Health Parity violation enforcement in Illinois

The  Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 requires employers and insurers to offer mental health and substance use…

White House Budget Proposal Seeks to Transform Mental Health Care

On March 28th, the White House released the federal fiscal year for 2023 budget, to begin on October 1st. The budget proposes…

President Biden calls for more attention on Mental Health Parity

In his first State of the Unions address on March 1, 2022, President Joe Biden called for additional attention on Mental Health…

Mental Health Parity still lacking

Last week the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury published the report titled Realizing Parity, Reducing Stigma, and…

Mental Health Parity Matters: The Role of Accreditation in Maintaining Compliance

Mental health parity has been the law since 2010 and the 2020 omnibus spending bill included new obligations for health plans to…

New Parity Statute Codifies Existing Guidance, Includes New Obligations for Health Plans

Most of you know that at the end of last year Congress approved an omnibus spending bill that included funding for COVID-19 relief, as well as a…