The Trump administration must soon make a decision that will affect millions of Americans' ability to access and afford mental health and addiction care.
The administration is facing a May 12 deadline to declare if it will defend Biden-era regulations that aim to enforce mental health parity — the idea that insurers must cover mental illness and addiction treatment comparably to physical treatments for ailments such as cancer or high blood pressure.
Although a federal parity law has been on the books since 2008, the regulations in question were...
Continue reading...The administration is facing a May 12 deadline to declare if it will defend Biden-era regulations that aim to enforce mental health parity — the idea that insurers must cover mental illness and addiction treatment comparably to physical treatments for ailments such as cancer or high blood pressure.
Although a federal parity law has been on the books since 2008, the regulations in question were...
