Modern Healthcare (3/29, Dickson, Subscription Publication) reports “CMS has finalized a rule that provides states and plans no flexibility in meeting requirements to provide Medicaid enrollees and children the same level of benefits for mental health or substance-abuse treatment that they provide for medical and surgical care.” The rule was created to apply the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to Medicaid managed-care plans and CHIP.
Related Links:
— “States, plans get no flexibility under final mental health parity rule,” Virgil Dickson, Modern Healthcare, March 29, 2016.