Carve-out plan financial requirements associated with national behavioral health parity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine changes in carve-out financial requirements (copayments, coinsurance, use of deductibles, and out-of-pocket maxima) following the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA).

Data source/study setting

Specialty mental health benefit design information for employer-sponsored carve-out plans from a national managed behavioral health organization's claims processing engine (2008-2013).

Study design

This pre-post study reports linear and logistic regression as the main analysis.

Data collection/extraction methods

NA.

Principal findings

Copayments for in-network emergency room (-$44.9, 95% CI: -78.3, -11.5; preparity mean: $56.2), outpatient services (eg, individual psychotherapy: -$7.4, 95% CI: -10.5, -4.2; preparity mean: $1

SUBMITTER: Friedman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7704471 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature