URAC Honors Mental Illness Awareness Week, Emphasizing Community and Care

Rooted in our value “we value people,” URAC reaffirms support for parity, access and stigma reduction

Survey Shows Mental Health Access Gaps Highlight Parity Needs

A new survey reported by Axios shows that workers with mental health needs are twice as likely as others to face barriers…

URAC Delivers Certificates to First Organizations Accredited for Mental Health Parity

URAC’s President and CEO, Dr. Shawn Griffin was on the road this week, traveling to Minnesota and North Dakota to present URAC’s…

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…