Health Payer Intelligence January 16, 2020
Experts from the Bowman Family Foundation and the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions explain how payers can assist with behavioral and mental healthcare parity.
Henry Harbin, MD, a psychiatrist and an advisor to The Bowman Family Foundation, and his team were somewhat hopeful in 2017 after publishing their report on mental health parity and disparities from 2013 to 2015.
Their optimism stemmed not from the results of the 2017 study—those were deplorable—but from the fact that they believed the behavioral healthcare disparities of those two years would show progress when the study was expanded to a five-year timeframe.
“We thought with the ACA having expanded access to behavioral benefits and with what many employers and health plans and others...