Mental Health Parity: New and Changing Requirements
Webinar
Overview
Join members of Faegre Drinker’s benefits and executive compensation group as we discuss the current state of mental health parity compliance obligations. We will address:
- What the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) requires health plans to do to ensure parity between medical/surgical and mental health/substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefit coverage
- The new comparative analysis requirement for nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs) that took effect in February 2021
- U.S. Department of Labor’s mental health parity audit requests and recent enforcement activity
- Trends in mental health parity litigation, including challenges to denials of coverage for residential treatment programs and autism treatments
Time
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PT
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. MT
11:00 – Noon CT
Noon – 1:00 p.m. ET
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. BST
Have a scheduling conflict? Register for the live event, and we’ll send you the on-demand recording shortly after the broadcast date.
Questions? Please contact Kassie Weld or call +1 612 766 7308.
Continuing Education Credit
This program has been approved only for the following continuing legal education credits:
- California: 1.0 participatory hour of legal ethics credit
- Colorado: 1.0 live hour of ethics credit
- Connecticut: 1.0 reciprocal hour of ethics credit
- Illinois: 1.0 hour of professional responsibility credit; for the mental health/substance abuse requirement
- Indiana: 1.0 distance hour of ethics continuing education credit
- New Jersey: 1.2 distance hours of credit for ethics/professionalism
- New York: 1.0 non-traditional hour of ethics and professionalism credit for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys
- Pennsylvania: 1.0 distance hour of ethics CLE credit
- Texas: 1.0 hour of legal ethics/professional responsibility credit
An application for approval of this course has been submitted and is pending in the following states: Delaware, Iowa, Minnesota and Virginia.
An application for HRCI credit has been submitted for 1.0 hours of HR General recertification credits. SHRM offers 1:1 reciprocity for any CLE accreditation.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (Faegre Drinker) has been certified by the New York Continuing Legal Education Board, the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board, and the Illinois Minimum Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education. Faegre Drinker is a Certified Provider, as recognized by the Colorado Supreme Court Continuing Legal Judicial Education Committee and a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. Faegre Drinker is an Approved Sponsor with the Indiana Commission for Continuing Legal Education and an accredited provider approved by the State Bar of Texas, Committee on MCLE.
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