Health Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage [npr.org]
It has been nearly a decade since Congress passed the Mental Health Parity And Addiction Equity Act , with its promise to make mental health and substance abuse treatment just as easy to get as care for any other condition. Yet today, amid an opioid epidemic and a spike in the suicide rate, patients are still struggling to get access to treatment. That is the conclusion of a national study published Thursday by Milliman, a risk management and health care consulting company. The report was...