Estimating The Costs of Parity For Mental Health, Methods and Evidence

May 2002 Estimating The Costs of Parity For Mental Health, Methods and Evidence In May 2001 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored a one-day workshop to help federal officials in designing their evaluation of the implementation of parity in the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program. At the workshop actuaries, economists, and key governmental officials examined the methods and evidence for estimates of the costs for parity of mental health. This report summarizes the lessons from the workshop . . .