Feds Release Parity Enforcement Tools

Several federal agencies recently released new guidance to further enhance federal parity law. Federal parity law requires that coverage given for mental health and addiction disorder services matches that which is given to medical and surgical health services.

The agencies involved in the effort include Health and Human Services’ Departments of Labor and Treasury. The guidance released by the agencies includes access to several tools that are intended to help organizations implement parity, improve the coordination of parity enforcement, and to provide Congress with recommendations for improving parity compliance in the future.

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