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The Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) is legislation signed into United States law on September 26, 1996 that requires annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health benefits to be no lower than any such dollar limits for medical and surgical benefits offered by a group health plan or health insurance issuer offering coverage in connection with a group health plan. [1]
NAMI successfully lobbied to improve mental health services and gain equality of insurance coverage for mental illnesses. [1] In 1996, the Mental Health Parity Act was enacted into law, realizing the mental health movement's goal of equal insurance coverage. In 1955, there were 340 psychiatric hospital beds for every 100,000 US citizens.
The 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act already requires insurers and corporate-backed health plans to provide access and payment structures for mental health care services on par ...
Some mental health academics and campaigners have argued that deinstitutionalisation was well-intentioned for trying to make patients less dependent on psychiatric care, but in practice patients were still left being dependent on the support of a mental healthcare system, a phenomenon known as "reinstitutionalisation" [5] [52] or ...
The 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act requires insurance plans to cover mental health and substance use disorder treatment with no more restrictions that they’d put on treatment ...
September 26, 1996; Mental Health Parity Act, Pub.L. 104-204 September 30, 1996: Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 (Includes Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban , Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 ; Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 ) Pub. L. 104–208 (text) (PDF) , 110 Stat. 3001
In health care, establishing parity of esteem means assigning equal value to mental health care and to physical health care. In many healthcare systems, parity of esteem is unrealized because of the pervasive stigma of mental illness. People with diagnosed mental illness die on average around 20 years earlier than those without such a diagnosis ...
Mental health-related legal concepts include mens rea, insanity defences; legal definitions of "sane," "insane," and "incompetent;" informed consent; and automatism, amongst many others. Statutory law usually takes the form of a mental health statute. An example is the Mental Health Act 1983 in England and Wales. These acts codify aspects of ...