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05/29/2019

Pursuit of Parity: Where Ohio stands on insurance coverage of mental illness and substance use disorders

Analysis by the Center for Community Solutions

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Pursuit of Parity: Where Ohio stands on insurance coverage of mental illness and substance use disorders

Adam White Policy and Research Assistant
May 20, 2019

Achieving parity in insurance coverage of behavioral health services is an aspiration that has evaded policymakers and consumer advocates for now more than half a century. At its core, “parity” in behavioral health policy, means that insurance plans that cover mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services make those services equally accessible and no more cost prohibitive than medical and surgical services of comparable scope. Congress and state legislatures have passed numerous pieces of legislation aiming to ensure parity, but these laws have proved notoriously difficult to enforce.

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