A bill to provide for full parity with respect to health insurance coverage for certain severe biologically-based mental illnesses and to prohibit limits on the number of mental illness-related hospital days and outpatient visits that are covered for all mental illnesses.
Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 1999 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain employee group health plans or related insurance coverages providing both medical-surgical and health benefits from imposing, in the absence of comparable medical-surgical limits: (1) mental health inpatient and outpatient benefit limits; and (2) limits on benefits for severe biologically based mental illnesses.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3702-3704)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on HELP.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-582.
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