The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) evaluation study: Did parity differentially affect substance use disorder and mental health benefits offered by behavioral healthcare carve-out and carve-in plans?

In addition to addressing historical inequities between medical/surgical and specialty mental health (MH) benefits, the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) was the first national parity law to require parity for substance use disorder (SUD) benefits (Ettner et al., 2016). This landmark piece of legislation required commercial large-group insurance plans covering behavioral health (BH, i.e., MH and/or SUD) to do so on the same terms as medical/surgical coverage.
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research