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Old 11-20-2008, 07:03 AM
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lagrutke
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Not to get OT, but I wanted to let winnie12 know that a law recently passed with the $700 billion bailout in Sepember. It's called the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.lockton.com/Docs/Complian...chellesLaw.pdf

Basically, it says if your insurance covers mental health and substance abuse, then it has to cover it as any other illness. This doesn't take affect until January 2010.

I discovered this last month as I was frantically researching why my insurance coverage didn't cover residential rehab, but did cover "inpatient".

Kathy
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