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"MENTAL HEALTH PARITY IMPLEMENTATION: New Regulations Explained by the Nation's Leading Analysts and Experts"

A Dialogue To Help Behavioral Health Leaders Understand Changing Marketplace Dynamics and the Implications for Consumers

A four-hour training on compact disc

Federal regulations have just been issued to help health plans, employers, and other payers implement historic mental health and addiction parity legislation (the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act).

This four-hour training brings together a faculty of some of the most informed and thought-provoking leaders in the industry to discuss the requirements of the interim final parity regulations and to identify the questions that still need to be answered.  Hear the lead staffer from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discuss the thinking that went into taking the statute from law to regulation--and the areas that still need to be clarified.  Hear the former head of Magellan talk about the quantitative and non-quantiative treatment limitations and their comparability to medical/surgical benefits. Hear a highly regarded actuary talk about the importance of understanding medical/surgical benefits packages as a basis for determining mental health parity. Hear a lively discussion among representatives of a major insurance plan, the American Psychiatric Association, a national healthcare benefits consultant, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and NAPHS representing hospitals and residential treatment centers as they outline the challenges and opportunities the parity regulations present as a vehicle for truly moving mental health care on par with medical/surgical care.

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