Mandated Benefit Review Of ‘An Act to Increase Opportunities for Long-Term Substance Abuse Recovery’

This document was released on December 15, 2014 by the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis. The document is a benefit review of a new law that went into effect on October 1, 2015, that requires most health plans in the state to provide access to inpatient substance use treatment for up to 14 days without prior authorizataion. The review outlines the provisions, the affected plans, and estimates the projected per member per month increase of the provisions . . .