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The Expansion of the CA Mental Health Parity Act's Requirements for Treatment of Eating Disorders

Recently, California courts found that the Parity Act requires health insurance providers to cover certain services used to treat eating disorders that were excluded from coverage in the insureds' policies. This article summarizes these decisions and discusses the implications for health insurance providers.

36 minute read November 01, 2014 at 01:29 PM
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Chet A. Kronenberg And Tyler Z. Bernstein
The Expansion of the CA Mental Health Parity Act's Requirements for Treatment of Eating Disorders

In 1999, the California legislature enacted the California Mental Health Parity Act (“Parity Act”) to remedy what it perceived to be a deficiency in coverage for mental illness on the part of private health insurance policies.

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