{"id":6932,"date":"2022-10-17T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirblog.org\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2022-10-17T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:49:15","slug":"new-georgetown-report-reviews-state-efforts-enforce-mental-health-parity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/new-georgetown-report-reviews-state-efforts-enforce-mental-health-parity\/","title":{"rendered":"New Georgetown Report Reviews State Efforts to Enforce Mental Health Parity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By JoAnn Volk, Rachel Schwab, Maanasa Kona, and Emma Walsh-Alker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United States is in a behavioral health crisis exacerbated by the pandemic. As more individuals and families need behavioral health care, they face significant barriers to treatment. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) was enacted to remove insurance-related obstacles to mental health and substance use disorder treatment, but inadequate compliance has raised questions about health plan enrollees\u2019 ability to access these crucial services.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwjf.org\/en\/library\/research\/2022\/10\/states-struggle-to-ensure-equal-access-to-behavioral-health-services-amid-mental-health-crisis.html\">issue brief<\/a> supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwjf.org\/\">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<\/a>, CHIR experts review MHPAEA oversight and enforcement in five states\u2014Arizona, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington\u2014to understand the challenges states face and identify opportunities for improvement. The brief focuses on enforcement of parity requirements for \u201cnon-quantitative\u201d treatment limits that insurers impose on enrollees, such as prior authorization requirements and medical necessity determinations.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwjf.org\/en\/library\/research\/2022\/10\/states-struggle-to-ensure-equal-access-to-behavioral-health-services-amid-mental-health-crisis.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) aims to remove insurance-related obstacles to mental health and substance use disorder treatment, but inadequate compliance has raised questions about health plan enrollees\u2019 ability to access critical behavioral health services. In a new issue brief, CHIR experts look at  current barriers to effective state enforcement and identify opportunities to improve MHPAEA compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[669,372,604,23,606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}