The following statement is attributable to:
Bruce A. Scott, M.D.
President, American Medical Association
“The AMA commends the Biden-Harris Administration for their commitment to ensuring that the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) has the teeth to protect patients from health insurance company actions that unfairly and too-often discriminatorily restrict access to mental health and substance use disorder care. While the AMA continues to evaluate the final rule, the AMA strongly supports multiple provisions that will help increase transparency, oversight and enforcement of MHPAEA in areas such as prior authorization and network adequacy. Health plans have violated MHPAEA for more than 15 years, and this final rule is a step in the right direction to protect patients and hold health plans accountable for those failures.”
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