State Budget - Mental Health Parity

Coverage for Mental Health and Substance Abuse: The Governor recommends increasing the minimum annual amount of insurance coverage that is provided for inpatient, outpatient and transitional treatment of mental health and substance abuse problems.

The minimum would increase to $20,250 for inpatient treatment, $3,450 for outpatient treatment and $5,200 for transitional treatment. In addition, the WJC continues to work in coalition to develop a legislative proposal this session to require full parity between standard medical benefits and mental health/substance abuse benefits in private health insurance policies.

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