ArticleAdministration and policy in mental health2009
Benefit limits for behavioral health care in private health plans.
Article in Administration and policy in mental health, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Effects of Three Kinds of Insurance Benefit Design Features on Specialty Mental Health Care Use in Managed Care.The journal of mental health policy and economics · 2019Article
- Federal Parity and Access to Behavioral Health Care in Private Health Plans.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2018Article
- The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Evaluation Study: Impact on Quantitative Treatment Limits.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2017Article
- The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Evaluation Study: Impact on Specialty Behavioral Health Care Utilization and Spending Among Carve-In Enrollees.Medical care · 2017Article
- A Comparison of Benefit Limits in Mental Health.Administration and policy in mental health · 2016Article
- Health Plans' Early Response to Federal Parity Legislation for Mental Health and Addiction Services.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2016Article
- Current controversies on the role of behavior therapy in Tourette syndrome.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2013Review
- Health services and financing of treatment.Alcohol research & health : the journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism · 2011Review
- Application of multivariate probabilistic (Bayesian) networks to substance use disorder risk stratification and cost estimation.Perspectives in health information managemen · 2009Article
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Abstract
Data from a nationally representative sample of private health plans reveal that special lifetime limits on behavioral health care are rare (used by 16% of products). However, most plans have special annual limits on behavioral health utilization; for example, 90% limit outpatient mental health and 93% limit outpatient substance abuse treatment. As a result, enrollees in the average plan face substantial out-of-pocket costs for long-lasting treatment: a median of $2,710 for 50 mental health visits, or $2,400 for 50 substance abuse visits. Plans' access to new managed care tools has not led them to stop using benefit limits for cost containment purposes.
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