Mental Health Transparency Act
Summary
Mental Health Transparency Act This bill requires private health insurance plans to publish information about the number and percentage of behavioral health care and substance use disorder treatment providers located in the service area of the plan that are in-network. Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services must establish designations to reflect the breadth of in-network coverage for each type of provider in a service area.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Sep 19, 2022
Last action Sep 20, 2022
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Committee
2
Sep 20, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Sep 19, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Sep 19, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
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