Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act

3.0.0 2874 2022-11-01T05:47:44Z 2022-11-01T05:47:44Z House HR 2019-05-21 116 [Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. KENNEDY:H.R. 2874.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8--to provide for the general welfareand to regulate commerce among the states.[Page H4065]]]> hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2019-05-22T17:36:50Z Referred to 2019-05-21T14:00:16Z hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing Referred to 2019-05-21T14:00:26Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2019-05-21T14:00:21Z Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act 116 1576 S 2019-05-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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00 2019-05-21 Introduced in House 2020-10-23T16:54:38Z Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act

This bill requires the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and the Treasury to (1) cooperatively issue regulations to require group health plans and health insurance issuers to annually disclose the analyses performed to ensure compliance with mental health parity laws, and (2) conduct annual random audits of group health plans and health insurance issuers to determine compliance. (Mental health parity laws prohibit health insurance plans that cover mental health and substance use disorder services from imposing less favorable limitations on those benefits than are placed on medical and surgical benefits under that plan.)

Additionally, HHS must establish a consumer parity unit: (1) to facilitate the collection of, monitoring of, and response to consumer complaints; and (2) to provide consumers information about the disclosure requirements and enforcement of the mental health parity laws.

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Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act Display Title Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act Official Title as Introduced To strengthen parity in mental health and substance use disorder benefits. Introduced in House IH Short Title(s) as Introduced Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116hr2874ih/xml/BILLS-116hr2874ih.xml 2020-06-30 Subcommittee Hearings Held. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.