Manatt Health July 31, 2023
Last week, the departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services (collectively, the Departments) published long-awaited proposed regulations intended to clarify and improve compliance with the federal mental health parity law known as the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA). The Departments also released their latest MHPAEA Comparative Analysis Report to Congress (the Report), which focuses on the Departments’ efforts to enforce the comparative analysis requirements established by Section 203 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Section 203) as well as a Technical Release that provides further guidance on the types of data that are particularly relevant to network composition/adequacy the Departments also solicit comments regarding the data to...