The Biden Administration is preparing to release proposed rules that impact how payers demonstrate mental health parity to federal regulators. The move marks another step toward resolving the disparity between how payers treat behavioral health and physical health benefits by bringing them in line with recently enacted reporting mandates. Yet little is known about the […]
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A Southern Florida federal court has handed down its heftiest sentence yet in a $106 million substance use disorder false claims conspiracy case. Judge Rodolfo Ruiz II sentenced Mark Agresti, formerly the medical director of Good Decisions Sober Living, to 100 months of prison time and to pay about $31 million in restitution for his […]
Three cabinet-level federal departments found that health plans are failing to ensure mental health parity in their benefit plans. The U.S. Labor Department, Health and Human Services Department and Department of the Treasury issued a 54-page report today spelling out how group health plans or health insurance issuers have fallen short of their legal obligations […]