Friday, January 31, 2014

Towers Watson Explains Final Mental Health Parity Rules

In "Final Mental Health Parity Regulations Mostly Confirm/Clarify Earlier Guidance", Towers Watson explains that:

"The PPACA expanded the MHPAEA to apply to the individual health insurance market and to qualified health plans offered in federal or state exchanges.

Plans and issuers need not perform a parity analysis every year unless they change the benefit design, cost-sharing or utilization so as to affect a financial requirement or treatment limitation.

A plan that is being redesigned in response to the PPACA should likely be reviewed for MHPAEA compliance as well."

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