Matthew B. Lawrence, J.D., is Associate Professor at Emory Law and affiliated faculty and an academic fellow alumnus of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
J Law Med Ethics. 2020 Sep;48(3):480-484. doi: 10.1177/1073110520958872.
This commentary describes limitations of mental health parity requirements in ensuring access to insurance coverage for mental health treatment and surveys regulatory options employed by states in Medicaid managed care programs as supplements to parity that can further reduce the risk of inappropriate denials of coverage.
本评论描述了心理健康均等要求在确保获得心理健康治疗保险覆盖方面的局限性,并调查了各州在医疗补助管理式医疗计划中采用的补充均等的监管选择,这些选择可以进一步降低不合理拒绝承保的风险。