New Hampshire Implementing Health Insurance Network Adequacy Rules With Specific Provisions For Behavioral Health

On June 15, 2018, the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) announced that the legislature had approved new health insurance network adequacy rules for commercial health plans that include provisions to strengthen parity access to mental health and addiction treatment services. The new rules go into effect on August 1, 2018. They apply only to individual and group commercial health plans, but not to self-insured employer plans or the state Medicaid managed care organizations.

Previously, network adequacy rules had applied to primary and specialty care services, but not behavioral health services. The new rules were developed because the state’s . . .