When an industry has been doing things a certain way for 20 years like they have been managing behavioral health benefits, it’s like turning the Titanic around. They have battalions of lawyers right now scurrying to figure out how they can get around this rule and they will try new techniques to limit access to care. So there will have to be a continued orchestrated response not only from addiction rehabilitation programs — who are the big winners in this — but also from all aspects of the mental health field to file complaints when they see compliance problems with the law. [They need to] speak up, teach their staff how to help the patient ask for both the medical and the behavioral health benefit when they’re verifying benefits so they can compare and see if their plan is out of compliance. It’s not like this passes and a spigot turns on and benefits just start flowing. It doesn’t work like that.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 02:49:07 +0000
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