‘The rule has sticks as well’: Biden’s getting tough with health insurers

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The administration says insurance companies are using loopholes to deny mental health care. Insurers say that’s not the case.

, from HHS and the Treasury and Labor departments, are open for public comment until Oct. 2.

“This is something that you would have expected the issuers and plans to be doing as part of their own internal analysis to ensure compliance,” said JoAnn Volk, co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University. Insurers could face fines of up to $100 per day per patient for failing to offer comparable coverage for mental health.

But AHIP, the lobbying group for insurers, says the situation is more complicated than Biden makes out, and that workforce shortages are what’s behind barriers to care.

 

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