MENTAL HEALTH PARITY & ADDICTION EQUITY - WHERE ARE WE?
For clarity, we use the term "behavioral health" to refer to mental health including issues of addiction.
Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity means that your treatment and coverage for behavioral health illness should be handled in the same or equivalent manner as the treatment and coverage for any other medical illness!!!
Many dedicated people have fought, and continue to fight, passionately for Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity. The legal successes have been great. So, if you seek behavioral health treatment, do you know what Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity should mean to you? In seeking treatment, does it seem that your health insurance provider is covering your behavioral health treatment in a manner similar to the coverage you receive for your other medical treatments? We believe that a huge number of folks who need behavioral heath treatment are finding that the reality of Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity is not living up to the hopes that at first accompanied the significant legal shifts.
This website's main mission is to provide some basic information for consideration with the hope of eventually being able to offer a respectful forum for the discussion of ongoing concerns and proposed approaches relating to Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity. We also very much hope to be in the position at some point to provide support to those patients, providers, institutions, educators and others seeking greater parity and equity in the mental health treatment coverage arena.
In order to provide some organization of the extremely dense information being offered for consumption, we have included our thoughts broken down into the below categories of potential users, but please feel free to review any and all sections that interest you.
Patients
Providers
Employers
Educational Institutions
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