The administration has proposed new rules it says will make insurers comply and threatens hefty fines if they don’t.
Insurers are pleading innocent and, backed by some of America’s biggest companies, claiming the Biden plan could make an intractable problem worse.
The administration says those ploys include requirements that doctors seek insurers’ approval before delivering mental health care, lower reimbursement rates for providers who treat mental illness and deliberate efforts to limit the number of in-network physicians available to patients.The U.S. health care system historically treated mental and physical health care differently. Insurers didn’t typically cover mental health care until after World War II. John F.
The administration has set a deadline for comments on its proposed rules for early October; insurers and their allies are asking for more time to respond.
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