Groom principal and co-chair of the Health Services group, Lisa Campbell, presented the plans’ perspective on state mental health parity reporting at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (“NAIC’s”) Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Working Group meeting held in December 2025 in Hollywood, Florida. As reported in the BenefitsPRO article, “Mental health parity push sparks reporting war between state regulators, health insurers,” Campbell addressed why “plans are having trouble with parity reporting” at the state level.
Providing the plans’ perspective, Campbell said, plans are challenged by the state parity reporting requirements “because each state is developing a different reporting system.” She continued, “[i]n some cases, . . . states are failing to give clear explanations of what they want or asking for data, such as information about coverage for individual services, that’s hard to provide.” She noted, “[t]he U.S. Department of Labor has developed a ‘self-compliance tool,’ or list of standards and questions plans can use to decide if they have achieved NQTL parity, and state adoption of the [DOL tool] would help insurers understand what states want.”
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