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GAO report highlights deficiencies in traditional oversight of parity
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32169
Subject(s) - accountability , parity (physics) , mental health , government (linguistics) , political science , environmental health , business , public administration , medicine , psychiatry , law , physics , particle physics , linguistics , philosophy
The process of monitoring whether health plans are complying with mental health and substance use parity requirements consists of a patchwork of federal and state oversight practices, leading Congress's Government Accountability Office (GAO) to state in a new report that “the full extent of compliance with [mental health/substance use] parity requirements is not known.”