Advocacy Alert: Legal Changes in California Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Industries: Key Takeaways
Advocacy Advocacy Alerts Find Your Representatives State FAQs Legal Repository Contact Us Advocacy Alert: Legal Changes in California Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Industries: Key Takeaways October 24, 2019 by Nelson Hardiman: see their Client Alert The...California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act
Subject Matter: False claims Jurisdiction: California Citations: Cal. Insurance Code § 1871.7 Summary: California law authorizing qui tam actions in which individuals and private insurance companies can bring suit on behalf of the State of California for alleged...Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equality Act
Subject Matter: Insurance coverage Jurisdiction: Federal Citations: 29 U.S. Code § 1185a; 45 CFR Part 147.136 et seq. Summary: Federal legislation signed into law in 2008 that required large insurance plans to cover mental health care as they would general medical...Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”)
Subject Matter: Insurance coverage Jurisdiction: Federal Citations: 42 U.S. Code § 18001 et seq. including 42 U.S. Code § 18022 (Essential Health Benefits) Summary: Federal legislation that, among other things, mandated that mental health and addiction treatments are...
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