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The "parity" rule, which became final in September, was aimed at ensuring that group health plans provide access to benefits for mental health and substance abuse disorders on a par with benefits ...
The final rule, proposed last summer, is aimed at closing the gaps by requiring health insurers to evaluate which mental health providers' services are covered by their plans, how much those ...
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]
The law strengthens mental health parity regulation, [9] which require insurance companies to cover mental health treatments to the same extent and in the same way as medical treatments. It also includes grants to provide community mental health resources, suicide prevention and intervention programs, and de-escalation training for law ...
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 ...
Durham rule; Duty to protect; E ... Mental Health Parity Act; Mental Health Systems Act of 1980; ... United States federal laws governing defendants with mental ...
However, there must be a formal institutional hearing, the prisoner must be found to be dangerous to himself or others, the prisoner must be diagnosed with a serious mental illness, and the mental health care professional must state that the medication prescribed is in the prisoner's best interest. 14th 1992 Riggins v. Nevada
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 ...