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Straight Answers to Employer Questions About Mental Health Parity
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Employers Talk About Their Successes with Mental Health Parity
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Everybody Wins When Employers Help Employees Who Are in Personal Financial Distress
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The partnership advances effective employer approaches to mental health by combining the knowledge and experience of the American Psychiatric Association and our employer partners.
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Results from Partnership Parity Survey
According to a recent Partnership survey, only a few employers are considering dropping mental health coverage in response to new parity rules that take effect for plan years beginning after Oct. 3. The survey was designed to better understand current corporate benefit design and what kinds of changes employers intend to make in order to comply with the law. For more information, download a copy of the survey results here or visit our Parity page here.
New Research Works: Employee Work Engagement: Best Practices for Employers
According to the literature, only one in every five workers is highly engaged in their work,
and low engagement saps significant dollars from the corporate bottom line. Our second
issue of Research Works, the Partnership’s new research briefs series, focuses on
employee engagement.
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Mental Health Parity: What does it mean for you?
The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity
Act of 2008 was signed into law as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization
Act. The law will provide parity between medical/surgical and mental
health/addiction benefits in healthcare plans that offer mental health
coverage. While the law will not take effect until January 1, 2010, there are
many questions that employers have now. And while some cannot yet be addressed,
(regulations have yet to be written) there are some helpful things to know
while preparing to respond to the new law.
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Partnership Takes On Psychiatric Disability
The current fragmented approach to psychiatric disability is costly to
employers, debilitating for employees, troubling for clinicians, and
frustrating for all. The Partnership has taken a major step toward remedying
this situation by forming the Taskforce on Disability and Return to Work. The
Taskforce has developed a set of assessment tools and recommendations which are
currently being pilot-tested with a large employer in the Pacific Northwest.
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