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Transcript: RULES PUBLISHED REQUIRING PARITY IN MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, December 19, 1997
Contact: HCFA Press Office (202) 690-6145
RULES PUBLISHED REQUIRING PARITY IN MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS
The Department of Health and Human Services today took an
important and positive step toward ending discrimination on the basis
of
mental illness by publishing final rules to guide group health plans
as
they meet their Congressionally mandated obligations under the Mental
Health
Parity Act of 1996 (MPHA). The law, which takes effect January 1,
1998,requires
health plans, such as those sponsored by employers, to provide the
same
annual and lifetime spending caps for mental health benefits as they
do
for ...