Parity is Not Enough! Mental Health, Managed Care, and Medicaid

Matthew B. Lawrence

doi:10.1177/1073110520958872

Parity is Not Enough! Mental Health, Managed Care, and Medicaid

Matthew B. Lawrence

Dickinson Law (Carlisle)

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This commentary describes limitations of mental health parity requirements in ensuring access to insurance coverage for mental health treatment and surveys regulatory options employed by states in Medicaid managed care programs as supplements to parity that can further reduce the risk of inappropriate denials of coverage.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	480-484
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Volume	48
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1073110520958872
State	Published - Sep 1 2020

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Parity is Not Enough! Mental Health, Managed Care, and Medicaid

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