Was federal parity associated with changes in Out-of-network mental health care use and spending?
| 作者： | Susan H. Busch, Emma E. Mcginty, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Haiden A. Huskamp, Teresa B. Gibson, Howard H. Goldman, Colleen L. Barry |
| 作者单位： |
1Yale School of Public Health 2Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 3Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School 4Truven Health Analytics 5University of Maryland |
| 刊名： | BMC Health Services Research, 2017, Vol.17 (1) |
| 来源数据库： | Springer Journal |
| DOI： | 10.1186/s12913-017-2261-9 |
| 关键词： | Mental Health; Mental Health Service; Mental Health Provider; Interrupted Time Series; Mental Health Care Service; |
| 英文摘要： | The goal of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act is to eliminate differences in insurance coverage between behavioral health and general medical care. The law requires out-of-network mental health benefits be equivalent to out-of-network medical/surgical benefits. Insurers were concerned this provision would lead to unsustainable increases in out-of-network related expenditures. We examined whether federal parity implementation was associated with significant increases in out-of-network mental health care use and spending. |
| 原始语种摘要： | The goal of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act is to eliminate differences in insurance coverage between behavioral health and general medical care. The law requires out-of-network mental health benefits be equivalent to out-of-network medical/surgical benefits. Insurers were concerned this provision would lead to unsustainable increases in out-of-network related expenditures. We examined whether federal parity implementation was associated with significant increases in out-of-network mental health care use and spending. |
