Mental health parity

The House of representatives has recently adopted a law Insurance reduced copay for patients to health insurance from 50% to 20%, the rate that is for all other medical specialties.

That may seem like a big deal - and if it is not, you are probably Medicare.

Even more interesting layout of this Bill is all pharmacy part D Medicare plans will be needed to cover almost all drugs - and that means benzodiazepines.

  Currently, benzodiazepines often not covered, they are generic or not. More generally, the Bill calls for drug plans cover "all or virtually all" medications that are available in the main therapeutic categories (psychosis, depression, etc.).

  Finally, it has blocked reduction 10% under Medicare paid to physicians.  This is important for family physicians who are often only physicians treat psychiatric disease a person;  a reduction in taxes could encourage the doctor do steps to take Medicare patients.

In March, the Assembly also adopted the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act, introduced in parity physiques.Cette parity and medical and psychiatric services apply the annual limits and the life cycle and gender in franchises and copays.Copays were previously as high as 50% for psychiatric illnesses and are now 20%, as they are for most medical diseases.In addition, he called parity with respect to the number of visits.Price increases are likely to be the result of this Bill are partly paid by pharmaceutical companies, which will be more "refunds" they will have to pay for their medications on Medicaid forms.(You didn't think that they have decided the forms based on science, did you?)

Parity Bill is not the famous "Mental Health Parity Act" 2007 adopted by the Sénat.La main difference between the two is that this Bill requires to cover all diagnoses of DSM, if they cover toute.En to pecifies, it does not allow self managed care companies to choose which diagnosis they cover, and which they do .the ' idea is that insurance companies should not determine what is a real illness and what is not – if the medical community has agreed that it is enough science to support diagnosis, then insurance companies cannot override this consensus to less science.

Previously, certain disorders (bipolar, schizophrenia, etc) were considered as equivalent to cancer and had parity couverture.Autres, psychiatric diagnoses as food and addiction disorders have different limits on inpatient and outpatient care.

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