25% Of Marketplace Plans Appear To Violate Mental Health Parity Act
About 25% of health plans sold through the health insurance marketplaces for two unnamed states appear to violate the requirements of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA). The provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) mandate that health plans sold through the health insurance marketplaces offer mental health and addiction treatment benefits that comply with the MHPAEA. Specifically, mental health and addiction treatment benefits must be offered with quantitative or non-quantitative treatment limitations no more stringent than those required for general medial treatment benefits . . .