An executive at a company that manages behavioral health for millions of Americans says Obama administration officials went too far when they expanded behavioral health benefits design disclosure rules.
Meredith Delk, a senior vice president at Magellan Health Inc., says the Obama administration officials had no statutory authority to require plan managers to release so much data about how they develop mental health benefits and addiction treatment benefits.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 requires group health plans to give reasons for benefits denials, and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) now requires a plan to explain denials of behavioral health claims, Delk writes in a comment letter.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
