MHPAEA Compliance
Enforcement of the Mental Health Parity & Addictions Equity Act of 2008 is gaining momentum.
In October of 2020, the Biden Administration made an unprecedented commitment to advancing mental health parity by making MHPAEA enforcement a top priority, and the Department of Labor provided a parity Self-Compliance Tool for understanding the requirements of MHPAEA, available here, which we suggest as a useful resource.
In 2021, Congress then provided the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury with a new enforcement tool by amending MHPAEA with the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) to require plans and issuers to provide comparative analyses of their non-quantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs) to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of HHS (collectively, the Secretaries) upon request and to authorize the Secretaries to determine whether those NQTLs comply with MHPAEA.
Most recently, the 2022 Report to Congress: Realizing Parity, Reducing Stigma, and Raising Awareness, published December of 2022, goes into detail about deficiency around analysis. It’s important to note that there are new enforcements in motion around compliance.
What’s Next?
We recommend:
- Reading the Dec 2022 report to Congress;
- Utilizing the self-assessment tool; and
- Scheduling a no-cost consultation to gain deeper support and an opportunity to translate your need with the help of our highly competent team of compliance experts.
We look forward to focusing in with you on what we can do to assess your plans’ compliance in a way that is tailor-made to suit your specific needs and keep you ahead of the potential for unexpected audits.
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We do this by working closely with the agency’s executive team to stay innovative, increase resources, and operationalize cost-effective strategies and programs on behalf of the most vulnerable populations of focus.
Our clients include behavioral health providers, health care systems, state departments of mental health, state departments of substance abuse, children’s services, child welfare agencies, county and municipality departments, school systems, first responders and law enforcement, specialty or therapeutic courts, federally qualified health centers, rural community health/behavioral health providers, and housing and homeless services.
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