Mental Health Parity and Its Impact on the Behavioral Health Workforce

• By: Rachel A. Fernbach, Esq. New York State Psychiatric Association
• July 1st, 2019
• access to care, behavioral health reimbursement, chronic mental illness, insurance coverage, mental health parity, provider advocacy, substance use treatment, utilization review
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In 2006, New York enacted a parity mandate in the form of Timothy’s Law, which requires group health plans to provide 30 inpatient days and 20 outpatient days for most mental health diagnoses and requires large plans to provide full coverage for certain biologically based illnesses. Several years...