For group health plans, “the new rules will generally begin to apply on January 1, 2025, though plans and companies will be given until January 1, 2026, to comply with certain new standards ...

Only weeks after the principal effective date for the final 2024 federal mental health parity rules for employer-sponsored health benefit plans, those rules—and specifically some key features ...

Premera Blue Cross Washington is facing a fine exceeding $500,000 from the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner.

The ERISA Industry Committee filed a lawsuit Friday against the U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services, seeking to invalidate their final rule under the Mental Health ...

The administration had pledged to issue a final mental health parity rule as part of an effort to reduce gun violence. Officials said they have now completed or made significant progress on 23 ...

The “parity” rule, which became final in September, was aimed at ensuring that group health plans provide access to benefits for mental health and substance abuse disorders on a par with ...

Since 2008, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act has required employer-sponsored health plans with more than 50 employees to cover mental health services on par with medical and ...

In 2008, Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act to help ensure that insurers treat mental health and substance use disorders with the same seriousness as physical ailments.

Under state and federal requirements known as “mental health parity” laws, insurers must cover mental health services comparably to physical health care.

We saw enhanced mental health parity rules. Basically, in a bid to enforce equal treatment for mental health and substance use services compared to physical health care, the U.S. Departments of ...