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Business Insurance, May, 2000

Mental benefits restricted to comply with parity law: GAO WASHINGTON -- A 1996 federal law barring group health care plans from offering discriminatory annual and lifetime dollar limits for mental health benefits has resulted in employers placing new restrictions on such benefits, the U.S.

General Accounting Office reports. The Mental Health Parity Act, which went into effect in 1997, bars group health care plans from offering lower annual and lifetime dollar limits for mental health benefits than for other medical and surgical benefits. In eliminating discriminatory dollar caps, however, employers have added other restrictions, a move benefit experts predicted at the time the mental health care legislation was approved by Congress. The GAO, Congress'...

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