Health Care
Biden Seeks Stronger Rules to Lower Mental-Health-Care Costs
- New effort intends to build on 2008 law on health-care parity
- No reason for arm break to differ from mental woes, Biden says
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The White House is taking steps to lower mental-health-care costs, seeking to ensure that Americans have the same access to mental-health and substance-use benefits that they have to physical-health benefits.
Under guidelines announced Monday, a new rule will require hundreds of health plans to make changes when they are providing inadequate access to mental-health and substance-use care. The plans will have to evaluate their provider networks, how much they pay out-of-network providers, and how often they require — and deny — prior authorizations.