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Mental Health Insurance, Parity & Public Policy

Mental Health Insurance, Parity & Public Policy. Richard Scheffler, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at UC Berkeley Mental Health & Public Policy Symposium January 12, 2002. 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Schizophrenic. Overview .

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Mental Health Insurance, Parity & Public Policy

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  1. Mental Health Insurance, Parity & Public Policy Richard Scheffler, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at UC Berkeley Mental Health & Public Policy Symposium January 12, 2002

  2. 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Schizophrenic

  3. Overview • National and International Reports of Mental Health • The Impact of Managed Care on Mental Health Services • Mental Health Parity and Study of States • Introduction of Panel Speakers

  4. National and International Reports on Mental Health • Mental Health Needs • The World Health Report 2001 • Surgeon General’s Report 1999 • David Mechanic 2001 • Mental Health Services • Ronald Kessler et al 2001 • McAlphine and Mechanic 2000 • Surgeon General’s Report 2001

  5. The Impact of Managed Care on Mental Health Services • What is managed mental health care? • Growth of managed mental health care in 1990s • Advantages and disadvantages to managed care in mental health

  6. Mental Health Parity • What is mental health parity? • Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 • Recent failure of Mental Health Parity Bill in House of Representatives due to expected increases in costs

  7. Mental Health Parity – State Policy • Conducted a study of each of the 50 states over eight years • States with certain characteristics were more likely to pass parity legislation • California AB 88

  8. Conclusions • Mental health parity is both a national and international issue that will not go away

  9. Panel Speakers • Richard Scheffler, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy, UC Berkeley • Robert L. Okin, MD, Chief of Service of SFGH Department of Psychiatry, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, and Vice Chair of the UCSF School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry • Dr. Steven Mayberg, Director of California Department of Mental Health • Ralph Catalano, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health, UC Berkeley • Helen M. Thomson, Chair of California State Assembly Health Committee and the Select Committee on Mental Health

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