MCG Supports a Comprehensive Strategy to Achieve Mental Health Parity

MCG Health Associate Vice President and Managing Editor, Stacey Popko, MD, MBA, discusses the concept of mental health parity and how MCG Behavioral Health Care guidelines can help healthcare organizations support a comprehensive strategy to achieve mental health parity. Under federal law, health plans must offer mental health/substance abuse disorder (MH/SUD) treatment in parity with medical/surgical (M/S) treatment. That means that benefit limitations, including NQTLs, must be no more stringent for MH/SUD benefits than for M/S benefits; NQTLs applied to MH/SUD treatments can't be more restrictive than those for M/S care. You can learn more about MCG Behavioral Health Care guidelines here: www.mcg.com/ca...