Consolidated Appropriations Act Underscores Mental Health Parity Compliance | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2021, enacted late in 2020, imposes a new requirement on group health plans to ensure compliance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). Unlike many of the other provisions of the CAA that affect group health plans, the MHPAEA requirement under CAA section 203 goes into effect very soon—on February 10, 2021. The MHPAEA prohibits group health plans that provide mental health and substance use disorder benefits (referred to as “MH/SUD” benefits) from imposing le...
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