The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) generally prevents group health plans and health insurance issuers that provide for mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits, from imposing more stringent benefit limitations on such benefits than are being imposed on medical/surgical benefits. Per the Consolidated Appropriations Act (“CAA”), health plans and issuers that are subject to MPHAEA and impose nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs) on MH/SUD benefits, must now perform and document a detailed comparative analysis.
Item No. 1
Learn the Health Plan’s obligations under this requirement
Item No. 2
Understand the scope of the analysis and how it may be performed
Item No. 3
Identify potential resources that may be able to assist in complying with this requirement
