Parity Continues To Be A Problem- Aspire Advocates is Working to Find Solutions
Federal Agencies Submit Report to Congress on Parity By Shalini Wickramatilake, MHS Recently, the U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor (DOL), and Health and Human Services (HHS) released their 2022 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Report to Congress. This report indicates that health insurers are failing to deliver parity for mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) coverage for their beneficiaries. The report also describes the federal government’s efforts to better enforce MHPAEA, and offers recommendations on how to strengthen parity implementation. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 requires health insurance…