{"id":137,"date":"2013-03-04T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2013-03-04T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T15:46:00","slug":"mental-health-minimum-benefits-bolstered-amednews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Mental health minimum benefits bolstered &#8211; amednews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/amednews\/2013\/03\/04\/gvl10304.htm?utm_source=nwltr&amp;utm_medium=heds-htm&amp;utm_campaign=20130304\">Mental health minimum benefits bolstered &#8211; amednews.com<\/a>: Millions more will get psychiatric coverage<\/p>\n<p>The Affordable Care Act\u2019s minimum benefits mandate and a federal parity law will combine to provide mental health and substance abuse coverage to more than 32 million Americans who didn\u2019t have any before, according to the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Insurance status<\/th>\n<th>Have benefits<\/th>\n<th>Will gain benefits<\/th>\n<th>Total with parity benefits<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Individual plan<\/td>\n<td>7.1 million<\/td>\n<td>3.9 million<\/td>\n<td>11 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Small-group plan<\/td>\n<td>23.3 million<\/td>\n<td>1.2 million<\/td>\n<td>24.5 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Uninsured<\/td>\n<td>none<\/td>\n<td>27 million<\/td>\n<td>27 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>All<\/td>\n<td>30.4 million<\/td>\n<td>32.1 million<\/td>\n<td>62.5 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Source: \u201cAffordable Care Act Will Expand Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits and Federal Parity Protections for 62 Million Americans,\u201d Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Feb. 20 (link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health minimum benefits bolstered &#8211; amednews.com: Millions more will get psychiatric coverage The Affordable Care Act\u2019s minimum benefits mandate and a federal parity law will combine to provide mental &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mental health minimum benefits bolstered &#8211; amednews.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health-care","category-ppaca"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}