Not having addiction providers on panels would violate parity.(Parity Special Series)(Brief article)

As treatment providers seek to become preferred providers on insurance company panels, they may find that the company has no specific addiction providers but does have psychologists, social workers, or mental health counselors, for example. According to Carol McDaid, principal with Capitol Decisions, this is going to have to be clarified in the rule.

"Not having a full range of providers on a panel is a form of a nonquantitative treatment limitation," McDaid told ADAW last week. (For more on this provision of the parity interim final rule, see ADAW, Feb. 22). "There is special …