After a year of back-and-forth, a group of U.S. senators have reached a compromise on a bill offering "mental health parity" to health plan enrollees who have mental health coverage. While the details are still under discussion, generally speaking the bill would require health insurance plans with a mental health option to cover mental diseases the same way they do physical diseases, including reimbursement, co-payments, deductibles and limits on physician visits. The bill is being championed by Sen. Pete Domenici, who has worked on this issue since 1996, and co-written with Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY). Creating a workable consensus proposal took years, but everyone involved seems to think the measure can move ahead now. Though health plans argue that such parity would be too costly to sustain, President Bush has previously expressed a willingness so sign a parity bill, so the measure's prospects may be better than many previous versions.
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- Kathlene B. LaCour and Craig S. Judd
- Passages Behavioral Health Services was founded out of need to service mentally ill, co-occurring, correctional clients seeking a second chance. Our 40 years of clinical experience has prepared us to do this work which includes providing case management, Community Living Suppports (CLS), clinical assessment, treatment planning and more. Passages Behavioral Health also manages re-entry housing for this population know as the Passages House. We provide a service that not only bridges folks to another chance but helps maintain their progress in the community.
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