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Parity is Not Enough!

Mental Health, Managed Care, and Medicaid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Matthew B. Lawrence
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Abstract

This commentary describes limitations of mental health parity requirements in ensuring access to insurance coverage for mental health treatment and surveys regulatory options employed by states in Medicaid managed care programs as supplements to parity that can further reduce the risk of inappropriate denials of coverage.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 48 , Issue 3: A Bold Agenda for the Next Steps in Health Reform , Fall 2020 , pp. 480 - 484
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2020

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