Also includes ways to support bills that require stronger insurance coverage.
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Actions you can take to help your loved one, your family, or your community.
We work to improve access to affordable quality care by providing resources to help families understand their rights to insurance coverage for proper substance use care. Included here:
*New* Insurance Resource Center
Take Action: Support bills to strengthen insurance coverage requirements
📚 New Insurance Resource Center
Insurance open enrollment is coming up and we’ve created resources to help you determine which plan best fits your or your loved ones' needs.
Insurance is complicated, and understanding if your plan covers substance use care when you or a loved one needs it can be confusing and overwhelming. Our insurance resource center has a number of resources to help you better understand and use insurance for substance use care. We cover:
basics about insurance coverage
what to look for when researching which plan will best meet your needs
📢 Take Action: Support Bills to Strengthen Insurance Coverage Requirements
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Parity Act) requires most health plans to cover mental health and substance use treatment the same way they cover treatment for any other disease, but millions of families still struggle to get coverage for needed treatment.
Here are three letters you can send to your members of Congress encouraging them to pass legislation to strengthen insurance coverage for substance use services.
Demand equitable insurance coverage for addiction treatment– The Parity Enforcement Act would provide additional tools for the federal government to enforce the Parity Act, allowing the Department of Labor to investigate and levy monetary penalties against plans violating parity.
Expand insurance protections and integration for mental health and addiction care – The Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act would address several barriers to care by extending parity requirements to Medicare and Medicaid fee-for-service plans, ensuring accurate provider directories in Medicare Advantage plans, increasing reimbursement rates in Medicare and Medicaid, and promoting integrated behavioral health care.
strengthen network adequacy standards for behavioral health providers to address “ghost networks” (providers listed in the plan directory are not accepting new patients or are no longer participating in the network) and inadequate networks
establish programs to educate and assist consumers
require standards for parity in reimbursement rates for mental and physical health services to improve network participation.
