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Health care reform brings expansion of addiction and mental health coverage

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From the Legal Action Center--(www.lac.org) March 22, 2010 In a major victory, ground-breaking expansion of addiction and mental health coverage of prevention, treatment and recovery is a part of the final healthcare reform bill passed on Sunday. The final bill, approved by both chambers of Congress, incorporates many recommendations made by LAC and our partners around addiction and mental health services: * Includes substance use disorder and mental health (SUD/MH) services as required benefits in the basic benefit package for individual and small business health plans. * Requires that all plans in the health insurance exchange comply with the Wellstone/Domenici Parity Act in providing SUD/MH benefits in the same way as all other covered medical and surgical benefits...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).