New Rules Mandate Mental Coverage

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Updated Apr. 17, 2017 5:45PM EDT / Published Nov. 08, 2013 7:37AM EST

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The Obama administration announced Friday that new regulations will require health insurers to treat mental health coverage like all other aspects of healthcare, the culmination of a long effort to achieve parity for mental health coverage and part of Obama’s effort to curb gun violence. The regulations put into effect a 2008 law, and will affect nearly 85 percent of Americans with health insurance. Insurers will be required to pay as much for mental health as they do for medical and surgical procedures, and cannot limit the geographical area where mental health care is covered.

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