Parity Is Not Enough! Mental Health, Managed Care, and Medicaid

This Commentary describes limitations of mental health parity requirements in ensuring access to insurance coverage for mental health treatment. It then 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.

Keywords: mental health, medicaid, health insurance, parity, risk adjustment, substance use disorder

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Lawrence, Matthew B., Parity Is Not Enough! Mental Health, Managed Care, and Medicaid (August 31, 2020). 48 Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics 480 (2020), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3683839 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3683839

Matthew B. Lawrence (Contact Author)

Emory University School of Law ( email )

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Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics ( email )

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