Parity in Health Insurance

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What Oregon's Parity Law Can Tell Us About the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and Spending on Substance Abuse Treatment Services — Feb 1, 2012

Oregon's experience suggests that behavioral health insurance parity that places restrictions on how plans manage the benefit may lead to increases in expenditures for alcohol treatment services but is unlikely to lead to increases in spending for other drug abuse treatment services.

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How Will the Effects of the Affordable Care Act Be Monitored? — Jan 4, 2012

Most will agree with the undeniable fact that a new era in US medicine and US health care begins in less than 2 years. The key question is what potential measures should be monitored to determine both anticipated and unanticipated effects of the new law on the health of the US population, writes Robert H. Brook.

COMMENTARY

Ensuring the ACA Helps Reduce Disparities—Not Exacerbate Them — Oct 14, 2011

Evidence from past efforts in the U.S. and abroad suggests that the full potential of health reform will not be realized without specific efforts to reduce disparities, write Robin M. Weinick, Malcom V. Williams, and Romana Hasnain-Wynia.

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Behavioral Health Insurance Parity: Does Oregon's Experience Presage the National Experience with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act? — Dec 31, 2010

Analysis of Oregon's state parity law suggests that behavioral health insurance parity rules restricting how plans manage mental health and substance abuse services can improve insurance protections without substantial increases in total costs.

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Hospital Price Transparency Laws in California Fall Short — Nov 30, 2009

Uninsured patients in California are unable to successfully obtain information about the cost of medical care at hospitals despite recent state legislation intended to improve price transparency.

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Improving Disaster Mental Health Care in Schools: a Community-Partnered Approach — Nov 30, 2009

School-based mental health counselors and administrators need greater organizational structure that supports school counselors and provides system-level support for services after a disaster.

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A Social Marketing Approach to Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in VHA QUERI: The TIDES Depression Collaborative Care Model — Sep 27, 2009

This study found that social marketing, which applies marketing techniques to promote behavioral change, is a promising approach for promoting implementation of evidence-based interventions in integrated healthcare systems.

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Mental Health and Substance Abuse Insurance Parity for Federal Employees: How Did Health Plans Respond? — Dec 3, 2007

The intent of parity regulation is to equalize private insurance coverage for mental and physical illness (an equity concern) and to eliminate wasteful forms of competition due to adverse selection (an efficiency concern). In 2001, a presidential directive requiring comprehensive parity was implemented in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. In this study, the authors examine how health plans responded to the parity…

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The Effects of Health Sector Market Factors and Vulnerable Group Membership on Access to Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Care — May 31, 2007

More research with longitudinal data is necessary to sort out the causal direction of social context and ADM access outcomes, and whether policy interventions to change health sector market conditions can shift ADM treatment utilization.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Impact of Full Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity for Children in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program — Jan 31, 2007

The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program implemented full mental health and substance abuse parity in January 2001.

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Who Joins a PPO? — Dec 31, 1986

This article is based on employee responses to surveys augmented with information from personnel files, and assessed that degree to which employees favor preferred providers and whether the preferred provider organizations (PPO) participants are a narrow, specialized segment or a broad cross section of covered employees.

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