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Traditionally, insurers and employers have covered treatment for mental health conditions differently than treatment for physical conditions. Coverage for mental health care had its own (usually ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about an explosive increase in the use of telehealth. In recent policy debates, controversy has emerged over telehealth mandates: Should states mandate that the ...

October marks the tenth anniversary of the enactment of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“the Parity Act”). This federal civil rights and consumer protection law prohibits most ...

For many decades, mental health clinicians have looked over the health care parity fence at the medical and surgical providers’ lot and envied their patients’ better health insurance coverage with its ...

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