APA Recommends Five Principles For Employer Mental Health Benefit Plans
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) and APA Foundation Center for Workplace Mental Health recommend employers take a more active role in improving access to behavioral health care. They recommend improving access by ensuring network adequacy, mental health parity compliance, collaborative care, and telepsychiatry in employer-sponsored health plans. The recommendations include:
Network adequacy of health plans:Â Health plans and behavioral health organizations should ensure network adequacy: increase in-network providers for all mental health and substance use services, provide updated and accurate provider directories, understand and improve network participation to enhance access to in-network treatment, provide incentive payments to . . .
