PLAKUN: Medical Director/CEO, The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA; and Founder, American Psychiatric Association Psychotherapy Caucus, Washington, DC.
J Psychiatr Pract. 2022 Jul 1;28(4):324-327. doi: 10.1097/PRA.0000000000000643.
Despite the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, access to psychotherapy through health insurance is quite limited. The 2019 landmark verdict in Wit v. United Behavioral Health offered hope of change. This column describes the recent overturning of the verdict in Wit v. United Behavioral Health, efforts by the Plaintiffs' attorneys to pursue a review by the entire 29-member United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit of the puzzling decision apparently based on a misunderstanding of the arguments of the case, and steps forward to implement the mental health parity law.
尽管有 2008 年的《精神健康和平等法案》和《成瘾公平法案》，但通过健康保险获得心理治疗的机会仍然非常有限。2019 年，Wit v. United Behavioral Health 的里程碑式判决带来了变革的希望。本专栏描述了 Wit v. United Behavioral Health 判决的最近推翻，原告律师努力让整个由 29 名成员组成的美国第九巡回上诉法院对这一令人费解的决定进行全面审查，该决定显然基于对案件论点的误解，以及为实施精神健康平权法而采取的措施。
