Ali Khawar, former main assistant secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of American Labor, spoke of the effects of the abrogation of the Federal rule clarifying the law on actions of parity and mental dependence and dependence.
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What will happen if this federal rule is repealed?
Let me give you anecdotes of what we saw and what motivated us when we worked on this rule in the first place. We have seen, and it was unfortunately a relatively widespread practice, that if you suffered from diabetes, you would not really have a problem with access to nutritional advice. Unfortunately, if you were a teenager suffering from a food disorder, there would be an explicit size for nutritional advice in this insurance coverage. Now that does not mean that if you suffer from a food disorder, everything you need is a nutritional advisor, but it is difficult to danger that this is not part of a well -balanced treatment regime. But it simply would not be allowed.
Parents who had autistic children who needed access to applied behavioral analysis therapy could not access it because it would be excluded. And a similar treatment on the medical and surgical side has not been sculpted. Drug tests, therefore urine analysis for people who had dependence on opioids who were in treatment programs, would not be covered, but urine analysis for a certain number of medical conditions would be covered without any doubt. These are the types of low fruits that we have seen that were very disturbing, because what it meant is that if you do not get these very fundamental things, what it means when we talk a lot, much more complicated problems like the way your service provider is adequate when we look at the mental health network vs the other health network. To what extent are you difficult for suppliers to enter? How are your reimbursement rates? How are your prices for examining the use of post. All these types of things are much, much more difficult to understand what is really going on. But when you see that the bases are not well made, from the point of view of conformity, it is very worrying to know if the difficult things are correct.