Behavioral Health Business April 4, 2024
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have fallen short in ensuring several states comply with Medicaid managed care mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements.
That’s according to a new audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which evaluated eight states with Medicaid managed care contracts. Four of the states in the review, including Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Texas, were required to conduct a parity analysis themselves. In the other four states, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi and South Carolina, managed care organizations (MCOs) were required to perform a parity review.
Mental health parity, which requires health plans to cover behavioral health on par with physical health care, has been the law since the Mental Health Parity and...
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