Mental Health Parity in New York – How It Started, How It’s Going

• By: Rachel A. Fernbach, Esq. NY State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA)
• October 7th, 2022
• advocacy, healthcare insurance, HMO health contracts, Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Report Act, mental health parity, Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, New York State, reimbursement, Timothy’s Law
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Picnics and Pizza The fight for mental health parity - equal coverage and reimbursement by health insurers of mental illnesses and conditions - has been long and challenging. In the 1990s, the National Picnic for Parity became a grassroots movement in support of parity. The group hosted spirited...