New Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Regulations
What You Need to Do to Comply
Live on Thursday, March 11, 2010
1:00-2:30 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT; 11:00 a.m. MT; 10:00 a.m. PT)
Just-issued regulations clarify many important aspects of the new parity requirements under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA). Although the regulations become applicable for plan years beginning on or after July 1, 2010, the basic MHPAEA rules are already effective for most group health plans. Let EBIA help you understand the new requirements so you can bring plan design and administrative procedures into line by the regulatory deadline!
For one registration fee ($249), you and your co-workers can gather in one room to attend the seminar together via a single web and telephone connection.*
Bonus! Attendees to our live web seminar may purchase the recorded version (available on-demand for 60 days) for just $100! (Regular price is $249.) A coupon code will be sent by email after the live seminar has been presented.
Registration is closed for this seminar.
Seminar Level
Topics Covered
Here’s some of what we’ll cover:
- What plans and insurers must comply with the parity requirements for mental health or substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits?
- What standards must be followed in defining mental health or substance use disorder benefits under the terms of a plan?
- What are the six new classifications created by the regulations for assessing parity with respect to financial requirements and treatment limitations under a plan (including the special rule that applies to prescription drug benefits)?
- Is it permissible to impose separate deductibles for mental health or substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits?
- What is the impact of the new requirement that all medical care benefits provided by an employer be treated as a single group health plan for purposes of the parity rules?
- How will compliance be enforced (both with the already effective statutory provisions and the soon-to-become applicable regulatory requirements)?
Details
Speakers: Andrew Ky Haynes and Gita K. Sharma. Mr. Haynes is an attorney and Shareholder and Director of Haynes Benefits, P.C., a law firm practicing exclusively in employee benefits, in Kansas City. He is a Contributing Author of EBIA’s HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security and Group Health Plan Mandates manuals. Ms. Sharma is an attorney and Senior Editor at EBIA. She is the Editor and a Contributing Author of EBIA’s HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security manual.
Questions: Send your seminar-related questions to webseminars@ebia.com by Friday, March 5, 2010 for consideration by the speakers in preparing their remarks. We will also accept written questions during the seminar. Afterwards, we’ll issue a Q&A document of most frequently asked questions (sorry—not all questions can be included).
Handouts: A PDF copy of the slides will be available for download the day before the seminar.
* Viewing Details
Your registration provides one web and one phone connection. (Note: A separate registration fee will be charged for each additional web/phone connection.) If employees of the same company wish to view the seminar using more than one connection, please contact us about additional registrations available at a $40 discount.
For no extra fee, you may gather a group of individuals employed by your company to attend the seminar together at one location using one web/phone connection. You may also invite guests (e.g., clients, association members, or colleagues from other companies), but if more than five guests attend, there is a surcharge of $20 for each additional guest. Please contact us to arrange for payment.
Please respect our copyright; do not record the web seminar, share the access link, or duplicate materials. For details on our copyright policy, please visit here.
System Requirements to Attend the Seminar
For the phone portion of the seminar, you simply need a phone line. For the web portion of the seminar, we use WebEx technology. You may wish to view system requirements, test your system and download any necessary WebEx software at this link:
http://developers.webex.com/api/jointest/
If you are not able to complete the WebEx installation or access the web portion of the seminar, please contact WebEx live technical support at (866) 863-3904.
