Top Ten 2025: The Impact of the MHPAEA Final Rule—Focused on Access


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Mar 07 2025 21 mins  

Based on AHLA's annual Health Law Connections article, this special series brings together thought leaders from across the health law field to discuss the top ten issues of 2025. In the seventh episode, Christianna Finnern, Shareholder, Winthrop & Weinstine PA, speaks with Noreen Vergara, Partner, Husch Blackwell LLP, about the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and its requirements. They discuss some of the changes in the final rule, whether the new administration or the Loper Bright Supreme Court case will affect compliance and enforcement of MHPAEA, and how MHPAEA impacts average health care consumers and those who don’t work in the benefits and managed care space. From AHLA’s Behavioral Health Practice Group.

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