New law guarantees mental-health parity in insurance coverage.
The Washington Post /Kaiser Health News (3/2, Boodman) reports that "an estimated 140 million Americans, most of them covered by group insurance plans provided by employers...are the beneficiaries of a sweeping new federal law designed to guarantee parity in insurance coverage." The new "law, which took effect for most plans Jan. 1, applies to groups of more than 50 employees and is designed to end what Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called 'needless and arbitrary limits on care.'" As a result of the new law, "higher deductibles, steeper co-pays, and other restrictions are no longer allowed for mental health and substance abuse treatment."
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