2012-05-24T14:57:24Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/parity-in-health-insurance.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120048.html Feb 1, 2012 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.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2012/01/04/JAMA.html Jan 4, 2012 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.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2011/10/14/AHE.html Oct 14, 2011 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100176.html Dec 31, 2010 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20101314.html Nov 30, 2009 Nov 30, 2009

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091210.html Nov 30, 2009 Nov 30, 2009

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090921.html Sep 27, 2009 Sep 27, 2009

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071220.html Dec 3, 2007 Dec 3, 2007

<p>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 directive.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070603.html May 31, 2007 May 31, 2007

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070205.html Jan 31, 2007 Jan 31, 2007

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

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19870201.html Dec 31, 1986 Dec 31, 1986

<p>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.</p>