What US Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 - Group Health Plan Parity Requirements requires
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 prohibits group health plans and group and individual health insurance coverage that offer mental health and substance use disorder benefits from imposing financial requirements such as copayments, deductibles, and out-of-pocket limits or treatment limitations such as visit limits and prior authorisation requirements on those benefits that are more restrictive than the predominant requirements and limitations applied to substantially all medical and surgical benefits in the same classification, requires nonquantitative treatment limitations to be comparable and applied no more stringently for mental health and substance use disorder benefits, and requires disclosure of medical necessity criteria and reasons for benefit denials.
Pillar: Insurance & Risk · Authority: United States Congress (Government Publishing Office) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/29/1185a
SHA-256 integrity: 8a42c1e6a86588956f00dcd31a1b946a5f8aaf5032e909d9656bc2b9e0643f94
Primary Citations — 8 traced to source
- 29 USC 1185a parity in mental health and substance use disorder benefits https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/1185a
- 42 USC 300gg-26 group health insurance market mental health parity requirements https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300gg-26
+ 6 more citations (full bibliography, deterministic workflow, actionable schema and crosswalks) included in the vault unlock — $0.01 via Skyfire / L402 / Direct Base USDC.
Access
- Discovery (free): /api/v1/nodes/us-mhpaea-2008-mental-health-parity-addiction-equity.json — 6-field metadata
- Vault (full node): /api/v1/vault/nodes/us-mhpaea-2008-mental-health-parity-addiction-equity.json — full 13-key payload, $0.01 USDC (L402/Skyfire/Direct Base)
- Canonical URL: https://bidda.com/intelligence/us-mhpaea-2008-mental-health-parity-addiction-equity
- Back to registry: Browse all 10,099 compliance nodes